Eritrea
Debub Region
Mendefera subregion

Mendefera

Mendefera, formerly Adi Ugri, is an ancient town which is now the capital city of the or of . The town's name derives from the high hill in the center of the city and it means that "who dared it" or "መን ደፈራ" as it was a jungle and is a source of pride to Eritreans.
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  • Type: City with 30,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “‘Adī Wegrī” and “Ādī Ugrī”

Mendefera

Latitude
14.88412° or 14° 53′ 3″ north
Longitude
38.81294° or 38° 48′ 47″ east
Population
30,000
Elevation
1,977 metres (6,486 feet)
Open location code
7G6WVRM7+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312691689
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
344901
Wiki­data ID
Q1019356
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Mendefera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “عدي أوغري”
  • Arabic: “مندفرا”
  • Arabic: “منديفيرا”
  • Asturian: “Mendefera”
  • Bulgarian: “Мендефера”
  • Catalan: “Mendefera”
  • Cebuano: “Mendefera”
  • Chinese: “門德費拉”
  • Chinese: “门德费拉”
  • Croatian: “Mendefera”
  • Czech: “Mendefera”
  • Danish: “Mendefera”
  • Dutch: “Adi Ugri”
  • Dutch: “Mendefera”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منديفيرا”
  • Finnish: “Mendefera”
  • French: “Adi Ugri”
  • French: “Mendefera”
  • Georgian: “მენდეფერა”
  • German: “Adi Ugri”
  • German: “Mendefera”
  • Greek: “Μεντεφέρα”
  • Hebrew: “מנדפרה”
  • Italian: “Addi Ugri”
  • Italian: “Adi Bana”
  • Italian: “Adi Ugri”
  • Italian: “Mendefera”
  • Japanese: “アディ・ウグリ”
  • Japanese: “メンデフェラ”
  • Korean: “멘데페라”
  • Lithuanian: “Adi Ugri”
  • Lithuanian: “Mendefera”
  • Malay: “Mendefera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mendefera”
  • Norwegian: “Mendefera”
  • Persian: “مندفرا”
  • Polish: “Mendefera”
  • Portuguese: “Mendefera”
  • Romanian: “Mendefera”
  • Russian: “Адди-Угри”
  • Russian: “Ади-Угри”
  • Russian: “Мендефера”
  • Russian: “Мэндэфэра”
  • Slovenian: “Mendefera”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مندفرا”
  • Spanish: “Mendefera”
  • Swahili: “Mendefera”
  • Swedish: “Adi Ugri”
  • Swedish: “Mendefera”
  • Tigre: “መንደፈራ”
  • Tigrinya: “Mendefera”
  • Tigrinya: “መንደፈራ”
  • Ukrainian: “Мендефера”
  • Urdu: “مندیفیرا”
  • Veps: “Mendefer”
  • Western Frisian: “Mendefera”
  • Yue Chinese: “門德費拉”
  • Zulu: “Mendefera”

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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 “Mendefera”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.