Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city of . With an estimated population of more than 6 million in 2026, it is growing very rapidly like many cities.
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  • Type: City with 3,500,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Addis”, “Addis Abbaba”, “Āddīs Ābebā”, “Adisabebo”, “ߝߌ߲ߝߌߣߌ߫”, “ሸገር”, “एडिस अबाबा”, “அடிஸ் அபபா”, “天然泉”, “新鮮花朵”, and “鮮花城”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: National Museum of Ethiopia and Addis Ababa Stadium.

Museum
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The , also referred to as the Ethiopian National Museum, is a national museum in . It is located in the capital, Addis Ababa, near the Addis Ababa University's graduate school.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is used mostly for football matches although it also has athletics facilities. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people.

Church
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, also known in Amharic as Kidist Selassie, is the highest ranking Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Addis Ababa

Latitude
9.0358° or 9° 2′ 9″ north
Longitude
38.7524° or 38° 45′ 9″ east
Population
3,500,000
Elevation
2,405 metres (7,890 feet)
IATA airport code
ADD
UN/LOCODE
ET ADD
Open location code
6GXW2QP2+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565076
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
344979
Wiki­data ID
Q3624
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Addis Ababa” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Afrikaans: “Addis Abeba”
  • Albanian: “Addis Ababa”
  • Albanian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Amharic: “Ādīs Ābeba”
  • Amharic: “አዲስ አበባ”
  • Arabic: “أديس أبابا”
  • Aragonese: “Addis Abeba”
  • Armenian: “Ադիս Աբեբա”
  • Asturian: “Adís Abeba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əddis-Əbəbə”
  • Balinese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Bashkir: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Basque: “Addis Abeba”
  • Belarusian: “Адыс-Абеба”
  • Belarusian: “Адыс-Абэба”
  • Bengali: “আদ্দিস আবাবা”
  • Bosnian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Breton: “Addis Abeba”
  • Bulgarian: “Адис Абеба”
  • Burmese: “အာဒစ် အာဘာဘာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Addis Abeba”
  • Cebuano: “Addis Ababa”
  • Central Bikol: “Addis Ababa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەدیس ئەبابا”
  • Chechen: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Chinese: “亚的斯亚贝巴”
  • Chinese: “亞的斯亞貝巴/亚的斯亚贝巴”
  • Chinese: “亞的斯亞貝巴”
  • Chinese: “阿迪斯阿貝巴”
  • Chuvash: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Croatian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Czech: “Addis Abeba”
  • Danish: “Addis Ababa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adis Abeba”
  • Dutch: “Addis Abeba”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اديس ابابا”
  • Esperanto: “Adis-Abebo”
  • Estonian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Extremaduran: “Adis Abeba”
  • Faroese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Addis Ababa”
  • Finnish: “Addis Abeba”
  • French: “Addis-Abeba”
  • Fulah: “Adis Ababa”
  • Galician: “Adís Abeba”
  • Georgian: “ადის-აბება”
  • German: “Addis Abeba”
  • Greek: “Αντίς Αμπέμπα”
  • Gujarati: “અદીસ અબાબા”
  • Haitian: “Adis-Abeba”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Hausa: “Addis Ababa”
  • Hebrew: “אדיס אבבה”
  • Hindi: “अदीस अबाबा”
  • Hungarian: “Addisz-Abeba”
  • Icelandic: “Addis Ababa”
  • Ido: “Addis Ababa”
  • Ido: “Adis Abeba”
  • Igbo: “Addis Ababa”
  • Inari Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Indonesian: “Addis Ababa”
  • Interlingua: “Addis Abeba”
  • Interlingue: “Addis Abeba”
  • Irish: “Adas Ababa”
  • Italian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Japanese: “アディスアベバ”
  • Javanese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Jju: “A̱du̱t A̱baba”
  • Kabiyè: “Adisi-Abeba”
  • Kabyle: “Addis Abeba”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Addis Abeba”
  • Kannada: “ಅಡಿಸ್ ಅಬಾಬ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Addis Abeba”
  • Karekare: “Addis Ababa”
  • Kazakh: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Kikuyu: “Addis Ababa”
  • Kildin Sami: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Addis Ababa”
  • Kirghiz: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Kongo: “Adis Abeba”
  • Korean: “아디스아바바”
  • Kotava: “Addis Ababa”
  • Kurdish: “Addîs Ababa”
  • Kurdish: “Adîs Abeba”
  • Latin: “Addis Abeba”
  • Latin: “Neanthopolis”
  • Latvian: “Adisabeba”
  • Ligurian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Limburgan: “Addis Abeba”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Addis Ababa”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿迪斯阿貝巴”
  • Lithuanian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Livvi: “Addis-Abeba”
  • Lombard: “Addis Abeba”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Lule Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Addis Abeba”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Addis Ababa”
  • Macedonian: “Адис Абеба”
  • Malagasy: “Addis Abeba”
  • Malagasy: “Addis-Abeba”
  • Malay: “Addis Ababa”
  • Malayalam: “അഡിസ് അബെബ”
  • Maltese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Marathi: “अदिस अबाबा”
  • Mazanderani: “آدیس آبابا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Addis Abeba”
  • Minangkabau: “Addis Ababa”
  • Mingrelian: “ადის-აბება”
  • Moksha: “Адыс-Абэба”
  • Mongolian: “Аддис Абеба”
  • Mongolian: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أديس أبابا”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߘߌߛ-ߊߓߋߓߊ߫”
  • Navajo: “Tó Sido Háálį́ (Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Tó Sido Háálį́”
  • Newari: “अदिस अबाबा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Northern Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Addis Abeba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Addis Abeba”
  • Norwegian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Novial: “Adis Ababa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Addis Abeba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ādīsābaba”
  • Oromo: “Finfinne”
  • Oromo: “Finfinnee”
  • Ossetian: “Аддис-Абебæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਦਿਸ ਆਬਬਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Addis Ababa”
  • Persian: “آدیس آبابا”
  • Piemontese: “Addis Abeba”
  • Pite Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Polish: “Addis Abeba”
  • Portuguese: “Adis Abeba”
  • Pushto: “آدیس آبابا”
  • Quechua: “Adis Ababa”
  • Romanian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Romansh: “Addis Abeba”
  • Russian: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Sakizaya: “A-di-se-a-pei-pa”
  • Samogitian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Saraiki: “ادیس ابابا”
  • Sardinian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Scots: “Addis Ababa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Addis Ababa”
  • Serbian: “Адис Абеба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Shona: “Addis Ababa”
  • Silesian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Sindhi: “اديس ابابا”
  • Sinhala: “අඩිස් අබාබා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Slovak: “Addis Abeba”
  • Slovenian: “Adis Abeba”
  • Somali: “Addis Abeba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آدیس‌آبابا”
  • Southern Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Southern Sotho: “Addis Ababa”
  • Spanish: “Addis Abeba”
  • Spanish: “Adís Abeba”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Addis Abeba”
  • Swahili: “Addis Ababa”
  • Swedish: “Addis Abeba”
  • Tachelhit: “Addis Ababa”
  • Tagalog: “Addis Ababa”
  • Tagalog: “Adis Abeba”
  • Tajik: “Аддис Абеба”
  • Tajik: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Talysh: “Əddis Əbəbə”
  • Tamil: “அடிஸ் அபாபா”
  • Tatar: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Telugu: “అద్దిస్ అబాబా”
  • Thai: “อาดดิสอาบาบา”
  • Thai: “แอดดิสอาบาบา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཌི་སི་ཨ་བ་བ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣዲስ ኣበባ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Adis Ababa”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Addis Abeba”
  • Turkish: “Addis Ababa”
  • Turkmen: “Addis Ababa”
  • Tyap: “A̱di̱t A̱baba”
  • Udmurt: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Uighur: “ئەددىس -ئەبىبە”
  • Ukrainian: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Ume Sami: “Addis Abeba”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Urdu: “ادیس ابابا”
  • Uzbek: “Addis-Abeba”
  • Venetian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Veps: “Addis-Abeb”
  • Vietnamese: “Addis Ababa”
  • Volapük: “Addis Abäba”
  • Võro: “Addis Abeba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Addis Ababa”
  • Welsh: “Addis Ababa”
  • Western Armenian: “Ատիս Ապապա”
  • Western Armenian: “Ատիս Ապեպա”
  • Western Frisian: “Addis Abeba”
  • Western Mari: “Аддис-Абеба”
  • Western Panjabi: “ادیس ابابا”
  • Wolaytta: “Addisaaba”
  • Wolaytta: “Tungga”
  • Wolof: “Addis-Abeba”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚的斯亚贝巴”
  • Yiddish: “אדיס אבאבא”
  • Yoruba: “Addis Ababa”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞的斯亞貝巴”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿迪斯阿貝巴”
  • Zulu: “Addis Ababa”
  • Zulu: “i-Addis Ababa”
  • “Adis Abeba”

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