Adwa
Adwa is a city in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, not far south of the border with Eritrea. The small village of Yeha is in the same area and its ancient temple is a bigger drawcard than anything in Adwa.
- Type: Town with 85,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Abba Garima”, “Adaba”, “Aduwa”, “Aduwā”, “Ādwa”, “Adwa town”, “Auda”, “Okraj Adwa”, “Slaget vid Adwa”, “ߊߘߑߥߊ߬ ߛߏ”, and “ዓድዋ / Adwa”
Adwa
- Categories: city, district of Ethiopia, and locality
- Location: Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.1671° or 14° 10′ 1″ north
Longitude
38.8912° or 38° 53′ 28″ east
Population
85,600
Elevation
1,895 metres (6,217 feet)
Open location code
7G6W5V8R+RF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Adwa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አድዋ”
- Arabic: “عدوة”
- Asturian: “Adwa”
- Belarusian: “Адуа”
- Bengali: “আদওয়া”
- Catalan: “Adua”
- Chinese: “阿杜瓦”
- Croatian: “Adva”
- Czech: “Adwa”
- Danish: “Adwa”
- Dutch: “Adwa”
- Finnish: “Adowa”
- French: “Adoua”
- German: “Adua”
- German: “Adwa”
- Greek: “Αντόουα”
- Gujarati: “અડવા”
- Gun: “Adowa”
- Hebrew: “עדווה”
- Hungarian: “Adwa”
- Indonesian: “Adwa”
- Irish: “Adwa”
- Italian: “Adua”
- Japanese: “アドワ”
- Kannada: “ಅದ್ವಾ”
- Latvian: “Adva”
- Lithuanian: “Adva”
- Malay: “Adwa”
- Marathi: “अडवा”
- N'Ko: “ߊߘߑߥߊ߬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adwa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adwa”
- Persian: “آدوا”
- Polish: “Adua”
- Portuguese: “Adwa”
- Romanian: “Adwa”
- Russian: “Адуа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Adva”
- Sinhala: “අද්වා”
- Slovak: “Adwa”
- Slovenian: “Adva”
- Slovenian: “Adwa”
- South Azerbaijani: “آدوا”
- Southern Dagaare: “Adowa Seɛre”
- Spanish: “Adua”
- Swahili: “Adowa”
- Swedish: “Adwa”
- Tamil: “அடோவா”
- Telugu: “అదవ”
- Thai: “แอดวา”
- Tigrinya: “ዓድዋ”
- Turkish: “Adva”
- Ukrainian: “Адуа”
- Urdu: “ادوا”
- Urdu: “عدوا”
- Vietnamese: “Adwa”
- Yue Chinese: “阿杜華”
- Zulu: “Adwa, Itiyopiya”
- Zulu: “Adwa”
- “Adwa”
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