Amhara
Northern Ethiopia is the historic heartland of Ethiopia. Administratively, it consists of most of Amhara, all of Tigray, and the northern part of Afar.
- Type: State with 19,100,000 residents
- Description: regional state of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Āmara”, “Amária”, “Amhara Region”, “Amhara Regiono”, “Amhararegionen”, “ET-AM”, “Província de Amhara”, “Region Amara”, “Región Amara”, “Région Amhara”, “Region de Amhara”, “Regione degli Amhara”, “Regione di Amara”, “Regione di Amhara”, “Regiunea Amhara”, “The State of Amhara”, “امهرة”, “امہارا ریجن”, “አማራ ክልል”, and “አማራ ክልል / Amhara Region”
Amhara
- Categories: region of Ethiopia and locality
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.5° or 11° 30′ north
Longitude
38.5° or 38° 30′ east
Population
19,100,000
Elevation
1,648 metres (5,407 feet)
Open location code
7G3WGG22+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Amhara” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “Āmara Kilil”
- Amharic: “አማራ”
- Arabic: “ولاية أمهرة”
- Armenian: “Ամհարա”
- Asturian: “Rexón d’Amhara”
- Azerbaijani: “Amhara”
- Basque: “Amhara eskualdea”
- Bengali: “আমহারা অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Amhara”
- Bulgarian: “Амхара”
- Catalan: “Regió Amhara”
- Cebuano: “Amhara Region”
- Chinese: “阿姆哈拉州”
- Croatian: “Amhara”
- Czech: “Amharsko”
- Danish: “Amhara”
- Dutch: “Amhara”
- Esperanto: “Amhario”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Amhario”
- Estonian: “Amhara osariik”
- Finnish: “Amhara”
- French: “Amhara”
- Galician: “Rexión de Amhara”
- Georgian: “ამჰარის რეგიონი”
- German: “Amhara”
- Greek: “Αμχάρα”
- Gujarati: “અમહારા પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Amhara”
- Hebrew: “אמהרה”
- Hindi: “अम्हारा प्रदेश”
- Hungarian: “Amhara Régió”
- Hungarian: “Amhara”
- Indonesian: “Region Amhara”
- Italian: “regione degli Amara”
- Italian: “Regione degli Amara”
- Japanese: “アムハラ州”
- Javanese: “Amhara”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಹಾರಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Амхара”
- Kirghiz: “Амхара”
- Korean: “암하라주”
- Latvian: “Amhara”
- Latvian: “Amharas kiliks”
- Lithuanian: “Amharų regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Amherų regionas”
- Malay: “Amhara Region”
- Marathi: “अमहारा विभाग”
- Northern Frisian: “Amhaara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amhara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amhara”
- Norwegian: “Amhara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estat regional Amhara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Region Amhara”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Amaaraa”
- Panjabi: “ਅਮਹਾਰਾ”
- Persian: “منطقه امهارا”
- Persian: “ناحیه امهارا”
- Polish: “Amhara”
- Portuguese: “Amara”
- Portuguese: “Amhara”
- Pushto: “امهارا”
- Romanian: “Amhara”
- Romanian: “Statul Amhara”
- Russian: “Амхара”
- Serbian: “Region Amhara”
- Serbian: “Амхара”
- Serbian: “Регион Амхара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Regija Amhara”
- Sinhala: “අම්හරා කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Amhara”
- Slovenian: “regija Amhara”
- Somali: “Amhara”
- Spanish: “Amhara”
- Spanish: “Región de Amhara”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Amhara”
- Swedish: “Amhara”
- Tajik: “Амхара”
- Tamil: “அம்மாரப் பகுதி”
- Tamil: “அம்மாரா பிரதேசம்”
- Tatar: “Амхара төбәге”
- Telugu: “అమ్హారా ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตอัมฮารา”
- Thai: “ภาคอามารา”
- Turkish: “Amhara Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Амхара”
- Urdu: “امہارا علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Amxara”
- Venetian: “Rejon de i Àmara”
- Vietnamese: “Amhara (vùng)”
- Vietnamese: “Amhara”
- Western Armenian: “Ամհարա”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ امہارا”
- Wolaytta: “Amaaraa Dalgga Manttiya”
- Wu Chinese: “阿姆哈拉州”
- Yue Chinese: “岩哈拉州”
- Zulu: “Amhara Region”
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