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Afar Region

The Afar Region, formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern and the homeland of the Afar people. Its capital is the planned city of , which lies on the paved – highway.
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  • Type: State with 1,390,000 residents
  • Description: regional state of Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Āfar”, “Afar Regional State”, and “The State of Afar”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dubti and Semera.

Town
is a town Administration in north-east . Located in , Afar Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 378 meters above sea level.

Town
Photo: Addis99, Public domain.
Samara is the capital of Afar Region, . It is a town on the –Assab highway in north-east Ethiopia, having been planned and built to replace .

Afar Region

Latitude
11.7108° or 11° 42′ 39″ north
Longitude
41.0331° or 41° 1′ 59″ east
Population
1,390,000
Elevation
464 metres (1,522 feet)
Open location code
7H33P26M+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1150919368
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
444179
Wiki­data ID
Q193494
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Satellite Map

Discover Afar Region from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afar to Zulu—“Afar Region” goes by many names.
  • Afar: “Qafara”
  • Amharic: “Āfar Kilil”
  • Amharic: “አፋር ክልል”
  • Amharic: “አፋር( ክልል)”
  • Amharic: “አፋር”
  • Arabic: “عفار”
  • Arabic: “ولاية عفر”
  • Armenian: “Աֆար”
  • Armenian: “Աֆարի շրջան”
  • Belarusian: “Афар”
  • Bengali: “আফার অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Afar”
  • Bulgarian: “Афар”
  • Catalan: “Afària”
  • Catalan: “Regió Afar”
  • Catalan: “Regió Àfar”
  • Cebuano: “Afar Region”
  • Chinese: “阿法尔州”
  • Chinese: “阿法爾州”
  • Croatian: “Afar”
  • Croatian: “Regija Afar”
  • Czech: “Afarsko”
  • Danish: “Afar-regionen”
  • Dutch: “Afar”
  • Esperanto: “Afario”
  • Esperanto: “Afaro”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Afaro”
  • Estonian: “Afar”
  • Estonian: “Afari osariik”
  • Finnish: “Afar”
  • French: “Afar”
  • French: “Région Afar”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Afar”
  • Georgian: “აფარის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Afar-Region”
  • German: “Afar”
  • German: “ET-AF”
  • Greek: “Αφάρ”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αφάρ”
  • Gujarati: “અફાર પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Afar”
  • Hebrew: “אפאר”
  • Hebrew: “עפר”
  • Hindi: “अफ़ार प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Afar Régió”
  • Hungarian: “Afar”
  • Indonesian: “Region Afar”
  • Italian: “regione degli Afar”
  • Italian: “Regione degli Afar”
  • Italian: “Regione di Afar”
  • Japanese: “アファール州”
  • Japanese: “アファル州”
  • Kannada: “ಅಫಾರ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “아파르주”
  • Korean: “에티오피아 아파르 주”
  • Latvian: “Afaras kiliks”
  • Lithuanian: “Afarų regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Афар”
  • Malay: “Afar Region”
  • Marathi: “अफार प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Afar (Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Afar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afar-regionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afarregionen”
  • Norwegian: “Afar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat regional Afar”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Affaar”
  • Persian: “عفار”
  • Persian: “منطقه عفار”
  • Polish: “Afar”
  • Portuguese: “Afar”
  • Romanian: “Statul Afar”
  • Russian: “Афар”
  • Russian: “Впадина Афар”
  • Russian: “Долина Афар”
  • Serbian: “Region Afar”
  • Serbian: “Афар”
  • Serbian: “Регион Афар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Afar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Regija Afar”
  • Sinhala: “අෆාර් කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Afar”
  • Spanish: “Afaria”
  • Spanish: “región Afar”
  • Spanish: “Región Afar”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Afar”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Afar”
  • Swedish: “Afar”
  • Tamil: “அபர் பகுதி”
  • Tamil: “அபார் பிரதேசம்”
  • Telugu: “అఫర్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “อะฟาร์”
  • Tigrinya: “ክልል ዓፋር”
  • Turkish: “Afar Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Афар”
  • Urdu: “افار ریجن”
  • Urdu: “افار علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “عفار علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Afar (vùng)”
  • Vietnamese: “Afar”
  • Western Armenian: “Աֆար”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ افار”
  • Wolaytta: “Affaare Dalgga Manttiya”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿法尔州”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿法爾州”
  • Zulu: “Afar Region”

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