Afar Region
The Afar Region, formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people. Its capital is the planned city of Semera, which lies on the paved Awash–Assab highway.
- State with about 1,410,000 residents
- Description: regional state of Ethiopia
- Also known as“Āfar”“Afar Regional State”“The State of Afar”“አፋር ክልል / Afar Region”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Semera and Dubti.
Afar Region
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- Location
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Latitude
11.7108° or 11° 42′ 39″ north
Longitude
41.0331° or 41° 1′ 59″ east
Open location code
7H33P26M+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Arabic: “عفار”
- Arabic: “ولاية عفر”
- Armenian: “Աֆար”
- Armenian: “Աֆարի շրջան”
- Azerbaijani: “Afar”
- Belarusian: “Афар”
- Bengali: “আফার অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Afar”
- Bulgarian: “Афар”
- Catalan: “Afària”
- 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: “Afar”
- Hausa: “Yankin Afar”
- Hebrew: “אפאר”
- Hebrew: “עפר”
- Hindi: “अफ़ार प्रदेश”
- Hungarian: “Afar Régió”
- Hungarian: “Afar”
- Indonesian: “Region Afar”
- Italian: “Regione degli Afar”
- Italian: “Regione di Afar”
- Japanese: “アファール州”
- Japanese: “アファル州”
- Javanese: “Afar”
- Kannada: “ಅಫಾರ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Афар”
- Kirghiz: “Афар”
- Korean: “아파르주”
- Korean: “에티오피아 아파르 주”
- Latvian: “Afāra”
- Latvian: “Afaras kiliks”
- Lithuanian: “Afarų regionas”
- Macedonian: “Афар”
- Malay: “Afar Region”
- Marathi: “अफार प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Afar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Afar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afar-regionen”
- Norwegian: “Afar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estat regional Afar”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Affaar”
- Panjabi: “ਅਫਾਰ”
- Persian: “عفار”
- Persian: “منطقه عفار”
- Polish: “Afar”
- Portuguese: “Afar”
- Pushto: “افار”
- 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”
- Somali: “Afar”
- Spanish: “Afaria”
- Spanish: “región Afar”
- Spanish: “Región de Afar”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Afar”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Afar”
- Swedish: “Afar”
- Tajik: “Афар”
- Tamil: “அபர் பகுதி”
- Tamil: “அபார் பிரதேசம்”
- Tatar: “Афар”
- Telugu: “అఫర్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “ภาคอาฟาร์”
- Thai: “อะฟาร์”
- Tigrinya: “ክልል ዓፋር”
- Turkish: “Afar Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Афар”
- Urdu: “افار ریجن”
- Urdu: “افار علاقہ”
- Urdu: “عفار علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Afar”
- Vietnamese: “Afar (vùng)”
- Vietnamese: “Afar”
- Western Armenian: “Աֆար”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ افار”
- Wolaytta: “Afaare Dalgga Manttiya”
- Wolaytta: “Affaare Dalgga Manttiya”
- Wu Chinese: “阿法尔州”
- Yue Chinese: “阿法爾州”
- Zulu: “Afar Region”
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