Jinka
Jinka is a market town in southern Ethiopia. Located in the hills north of the Tama Plains, this town is the capital of the Ari Zone of the South Ethiopia Regional State.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baco Airport.
Baco Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: DonCamillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baco Airport is a public airport serving the towns of Jinka and Baco, in southern Ethiopia. The airport was built 3 kilometres south of Jinka. Baco Airport is situated 4 km south of Jinka.
Jinka
- Type: Town with 54,400 residents
- Description: place in Ethiopia
- Categories: city, district of Ethiopia, and locality
- Location: South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.786° or 5° 47′ 10″ northLongitude
36.5652° or 36° 33′ 55″ eastPopulation
54,400Elevation
1,430 metres (4,692 feet)United Nations Location Code
ET BCOOpen location code
6GQRQHP8+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 540265111OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Jinka” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jinka”
- Chinese: “金卡”
- Danish: “Jinka”
- Dutch: “Jinka”
- French: “Bako”
- French: “Jinka”
- German: “Jinka”
- Hebrew: “ג’ינקה”
- Italian: “Jinka”
- Japanese: “ジンカ”
- Polish: “Dżinka”
- Polish: “Jinka”
- Romanian: “Jinka”
- Russian: “Джинка”
- Slovenian: “Džinka”
- Spanish: “Jinka”
- Swedish: “Jinka”
- Zulu: “Jinka”
- “Jinka”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jinka Runway and Jinka bus station.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jinka”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.