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Shire

Shire, also known as Shire Inda Selassie, is a city and separate woreda in the of . The city is the administrative center of the Shire Awraja, Mi erabawi Zoba and now Semien Mi'irabawi Zone. It was part of Tahtay Koraro district.
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  • Type: Town with 47,300 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Enda Salassie”, “Endā Selāsē”, “Enda Selassie”, “Enda Selassye”, “Enda Sellassie”, “Inda Silassie”, “Shirē Inda Silasē”, “Shire Inda Silassie”, “Shire, Ethiopia”, and “Ynda Syllase”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shire Airport.

Aerodrome
, also known as Shire Inda Selassie Airport or Indaselassie Airport, is a public airport serving Shire, a city in the , in northern .

Shire

Latitude
14.1024° or 14° 6′ 9″ north
Longitude
38.2825° or 38° 16′ 57″ east
Population
47,300
Elevation
1,912 metres (6,273 feet)
IATA airport code
SHC
Open location code
7G6W472M+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321251656
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
334227
Wiki­data ID
Q743859
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Shire” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “እንዳስላሴ”
  • Arabic: “شاير”
  • Arabic: “شيره”
  • Bavarian: “Shire”
  • Belarusian: “Ында-Сыласе”
  • Cebuano: “Inda Silasē”
  • Chinese: “希雷”
  • Dutch: “Inda Selassie”
  • Estonian: “Shire Inda Selassie”
  • Finnish: “Inda Silase”
  • French: “Shire”
  • German: “Shire”
  • Hebrew: “שירה (אזור היסטורי)”
  • Hebrew: “שירה”
  • Irish: “Shire”
  • Italian: “Inda Selassie”
  • Italian: “Scirè”
  • Japanese: “シレ (エチオピア)”
  • Polish: “Shire”
  • Polish: “Szirie”
  • Polish: “Szyrie”
  • Romanian: “Shire, Etiopia”
  • Russian: “Ында-Сылласе”
  • Slovenian: “Shire, Etiopija”
  • Swahili: “Shire”
  • Swedish: “Inda Silasē”
  • Ukrainian: “Шіре”
  • Zulu: “Shire Inda Selassie”

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