East Africa
Ethiopia
Afar Region

Awash

Awash Subah is a market town in central . Located in Administrative Zone 3 of the , above a gorge on the , after which the town is named, the town lies on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, which crosses the gorge by a bridge there.
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  • Type: Town with 11,100 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Awash Sebat Kilo” and “Awash, Ethiopia”

Awash

Latitude
8.9925° or 8° 59′ 33″ north
Longitude
40.16767° or 40° 10′ 4″ east
Population
11,100
Elevation
912 metres (2,992 feet)
Open location code
6HW2X5R9+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316863864
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
343134
Wiki­data ID
Q791636
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Zulu—“Awash” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ավաշ”
  • Asturian: “Awash”
  • Cebuano: “Āwash”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦什”
  • Croatian: “Avaš (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Avaš (grad”
  • Croatian: “Avaš”
  • Czech: “Awaš”
  • Danish: “Awash (by)”
  • Danish: “Awash”
  • Dutch: “Awash”
  • Finnish: “Awash (kaupunki)”
  • Finnish: “Awash”
  • French: “Aouache”
  • French: “Awash”
  • German: “Awash”
  • Indonesian: “Awash”
  • Irish: “Awash”
  • Italian: “Auasc”
  • Italian: “Awash”
  • Japanese: “アワシュ”
  • Persian: “آواش، اتیوپی”
  • Polish: “Auasz (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Auasz”
  • Romanian: “Awash”
  • Russian: “Аваш (город)”
  • Russian: “Аваш”
  • Slovenian: “Avaš”
  • Swedish: “Awash”
  • Swedish: “Āwash”
  • Ukrainian: “Аваш (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аваш”
  • Zulu: “Awash, Itiyopiya”

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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 “Awash”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.