Oromiya

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  • Type: region of Ethiopia with 35,500,000 residents
  • Description: regional state of Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “ET-OR”, “Mkoa wa Oromia”, “Oromia”, “Oromia Federal State”, “Oromia Region”, “Oromia Regional National State”, “Oromia Regional State”, “Oromīya”, “Oromiya Regional Government”, “Oromo regionas”, “Oroomiya dalgga manttiya”, “Regija Oromia”, “Regija Oromija”, “Region de Oromia”, “Regional State of Oromia”, “Regional State of Oromiya”, “The State of Oromia”, “Оромиа”, “Регион Оромиа”, “اورومیا ریجن”, and “ኦሮሚያ”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ogolcho.

Village
is a town in southeastern . Located in the of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1687 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Ziway Dugda woreda. is situated 5 km north of Oromiya.

Oromiya

Latitude
8° north
Longitude
39° east
Population
35,500,000
Elevation
1,725 metres (5,659 feet)
Open location code
6GWX2222+22
Geo­Names ID
444185
Wiki­data ID
Q202107
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Oromiya” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “Oromīya Kilil”
  • Amharic: “ኦሮሚያ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “أوروميا”
  • Armenian: “Օրոմիա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oromiya”
  • Basque: “Oromia”
  • Belarusian: “Арамія”
  • Belarusian: “Аромія”
  • Bengali: “ওরোমিয়া অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Oromia”
  • Bulgarian: “Оромия”
  • Catalan: “Oròmia”
  • Cebuano: “Oromiya Region”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئۆرۆمیا”
  • Chinese: “奥罗米亚州”
  • Chinese: “奧羅米亞州”
  • Croatian: “Oromia”
  • Czech: “Oromie”
  • Danish: “Oromia Region”
  • Danish: “Oromia”
  • Dutch: “Oromia”
  • Dutch: “Oromiya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوروميا”
  • Esperanto: “Oromio”
  • Finnish: “Oromia”
  • French: “Oromia”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Oromia”
  • Georgian: “ორომიის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Oromia”
  • Greek: “Ορόμια”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરોમિયા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Oromiya”
  • Hebrew: “אורומיה”
  • Hindi: “ओरोमिआ प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Oromia”
  • Indonesian: “Region Oromia”
  • Italian: “Oromia”
  • Italian: “Regione di Oromia”
  • Japanese: “オロミア州”
  • Javanese: “Region Oromia”
  • Kannada: “ಒರೊಮಿಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Оромия”
  • Kirghiz: “Оромия”
  • Korean: “오로미아주”
  • Latvian: “Oromija”
  • Latvian: “Oromijas kiliks”
  • Lithuanian: “Oromijos regionas”
  • Malay: “Oromia Region”
  • Marathi: “ओरोमिया प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oromija”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oromia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oromiaregionen”
  • Norwegian: “Oromia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat regional d’Oromia”
  • Oromo: “Oromiyaa”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਰੋਮੀਆ”
  • Persian: “منطقه اورومیا”
  • Polish: “Oromia”
  • Portuguese: “Oromia”
  • Pushto: “اورومیا”
  • Romanian: “Statul Oromia”
  • Russian: “Оромия”
  • Serbian: “Region Oromija”
  • Serbian: “Оромија”
  • Serbian: “Регион Оромија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oromija”
  • Sinhala: “ඔරෝමියා කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Oromia”
  • Somali: “Oromiya”
  • Spanish: “Región de Oromía”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Oromia”
  • Swedish: “Oromia”
  • Tajik: “вилояти Оромия”
  • Tamil: “ஒரோமியா பகுதி”
  • Tamil: “ஒரோமியா பிரதேசம்”
  • Tatar: “Оромия”
  • Telugu: “ఓరోమియా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “ภาคออรอมิยา”
  • Thai: “รัฐภูมิภาคออรอมิยา”
  • Turkish: “Oromia Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Оромія”
  • Urdu: “اورومیا علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Oromiya”
  • Venetian: “Rejon de i Oròmo”
  • Vietnamese: “Oromia”
  • Western Armenian: “Օրոմիա (նահանգ)”
  • Western Armenian: “Օրոմիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ارومیا”
  • Wolaytta: “Oroomiya”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥罗米亚州”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧羅米亞州”
  • Zulu: “Oromia Region”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Golbē and Ch’ebē Bota.

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