Dessie
Dessie is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the South Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, it sits at a latitude and longitude of, with an elevation between 2,470 and 2,550 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 169,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Dasē”, “Dese”, “Dessa”, “Dessi”, “Dessye”, and “Dixan”
Dessie
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Amhara, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.1226° or 11° 7′ 21″ northLongitude
39.635° or 39° 38′ 6″ eastPopulation
169,000Elevation
2,494 metres (8,182 feet)United Nations Location Code
ET DSEOpen location code
7G3X4JFM+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 281666535OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Dessie” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ደሴ”
- Arabic: “ديسي”
- Asturian: “Dessie”
- Basque: “Dese”
- Belarusian: “Дэсэ”
- Bengali: “দেশি”
- Catalan: “Dese”
- Cebuano: “Desē”
- Chinese: “德西”
- Croatian: “Dese”
- Czech: “Dese”
- Danish: “Dese”
- Danish: “Dessie”
- Dutch: “Dese”
- Dutch: “Dessie”
- Dutch: “Dessye”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديسى”
- Esperanto: “Dese”
- Esperanto: “Dessie”
- Finnish: “Dessie”
- French: “Dasse”
- French: “Desē”
- French: “Dessé”
- French: “Dessē”
- French: “Dessie”
- French: “Dessié”
- French: “Dessye”
- Georgian: “დესიე”
- German: “Dese”
- German: “Dessie”
- Greek: “Ντάσια”
- Greek: “Ντέσιε”
- Gujarati: “ડેસી”
- Hebrew: “דסה”
- Hindi: “देस्सी”
- Hungarian: “Dessie”
- Indonesian: “Dessie”
- Irish: “Dessie”
- Italian: “Dessie”
- Italian: “Dessiè”
- Japanese: “デセ”
- Japanese: “デッシエ”
- Kannada: “ಡೆಸ್ಸಿ”
- Korean: “데시”
- Latvian: “Dese”
- Lithuanian: “Desė”
- Lithuanian: “Desijė”
- Malay: “Dessie”
- Marathi: “डेसी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dessie”
- Norwegian: “Dessie”
- Persian: “دسیه”
- Persian: “دیسی، اتیوپی”
- Polish: “Desje”
- Romanian: “Dessie”
- Russian: “Дэссе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dese”
- Shona: “Dessie”
- Sinhala: “දෙස්සී”
- Spanish: “Dese”
- Spanish: “Desē”
- Spanish: “Dessie”
- Swahili: “Dese”
- Swedish: “Dese”
- Swedish: “Dessie”
- Tamil: “டெஸ்ஸி”
- Telugu: “డెస్సి”
- Thai: “เดซี่”
- Turkish: “Dessie”
- Ukrainian: “Дессе”
- Urdu: “دیسیی”
- Urdu: “ڈیسی”
- Venetian: “Dessiè”
- Vietnamese: “Dessie”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dessie”
- Zulu: “Dessie”
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