Eritrea
Maekel Region
South Western subregion

Asmara

The capital of Asmara is a vibrant mix of Italian and African architecture and culture. It is by far the biggest and most important city of Eritrea and not just the administration center of the country but also the cultural center and the place where every tourist will arrive to the country.
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  • Type: City with 579,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Eritrea
  • Also known as: “Asmera”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fiat Tagliero and Cinema Impero.

Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Building is a Futurist-style in Asmara, . It was completed in 1938 and designed by the engineer Giuseppe Pettazzi.

Movie theater
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an Art Deco-style in Asmara, the capital of . It was built in 1937 by the colonial authorities in Italian Eritrea.

Museum
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Eritrea is a national museum in Asmara, . Established in 1992 by Woldeab Woldemariam, it was originally located in the former Governor's Palace until 1997, when it was moved.

Asmara

Latitude
15.339° or 15° 20′ 20″ north
Longitude
38.9327° or 38° 55′ 58″ east
Population
579,000
Elevation
2,334 metres (7,657 feet)
IATA airport code
ASM
United Nations Location Code
ER ASM
Open location code
7G7W8WQM+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5621920820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
343300
Wiki­data ID
Q3642
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Asmara” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Асмэра”
  • Afrikaans: “Asmara”
  • Albanian: “Asmara”
  • Amharic: “አስመራ”
  • Arabic: “أسمرة”
  • Aragonese: “Asmara”
  • Armenian: “Ասմարա”
  • Arpitan: “Asmara”
  • Asturian: “Asmara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əsməra”
  • Balinese: “Asmara, Éritréa”
  • Basque: “Asmara”
  • Bavarian: “Asmara”
  • Belarusian: “Асмара”
  • Belarusian: “Асмэра”
  • Bengali: “আসমারা”
  • Bosnian: “Asmara”
  • Breton: “Asmara”
  • Bulgarian: “Асмара”
  • Catalan: “Asmara”
  • Cebuano: “Asmara”
  • Central Bikol: “Asmara”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسمەرە”
  • Chechen: “Асмэра”
  • Chinese: “Asmara”
  • Chinese: “阿斯馬拉”
  • Chinese: “阿斯马拉”
  • Church Slavic: “Асмєра”
  • Chuvash: “Асмэра”
  • Cornish: “Asmara”
  • Corsican: “Asmara”
  • Croatian: “Asmera”
  • Czech: “Asmara”
  • Dagbani: “Asmara”
  • Danish: “Asmara”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Asmara”
  • Dutch: “Asmara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسمره”
  • Esperanto: “Asmaro”
  • Esperanto: “Asmero”
  • Estonian: “Asmara”
  • Extremaduran: “Asmara”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Asmara”
  • Finnish: “Asmara”
  • French: “Asmara”
  • French: “Asmera”
  • Friulian: “Asmara”
  • Galician: “Asmara”
  • Georgian: “ასმერა”
  • German: “Asmara”
  • Greek: “Ασμάρα”
  • Gujarati: “અસ્મારા”
  • Haitian: “Asmara”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Asmara”
  • Hausa: “Asmara”
  • Hebrew: “אסמרה”
  • Hindi: “अस्मारा”
  • Hungarian: “Aszmara”
  • Icelandic: “Asmara”
  • Ido: “Asmara”
  • Inari Sami: “Asmara”
  • Indonesian: “Asmara, Eritrea”
  • Indonesian: “Asmara”
  • Interlingua: “Asmara”
  • Interlingue: “Asmara”
  • Irish: “Asmara”
  • Italian: “Asmara”
  • Italian: “Asmera”
  • Italian: “L’Asmara”
  • Japanese: “アスマラ”
  • Javanese: “Asmara”
  • Kabiyè: “Asɩmara”
  • Kabyle: “Asmara”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಮಾರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Асмэра”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Asmara”
  • Kirghiz: “Асмара”
  • Kongo: “Asmara”
  • Korean: “아스마라”
  • Kotava: “Asmara”
  • Kurdish: “Asmara”
  • Latin: “Asmara”
  • Latvian: “Asmera”
  • Ligurian: “Asmara”
  • Limburgan: “Asmara”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Asmara”
  • Lithuanian: “Asmara”
  • Livvi: “Asmera”
  • Lombard: “Asmara”
  • Low German: “Asmara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asmara”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Asmara”
  • Macedonian: “Асмара”
  • Malagasy: “Asmara”
  • Malay: “Asmara, Eritrea”
  • Malay: “Asmara”
  • Malayalam: “അസ്മാറ”
  • Maltese: “Asmara”
  • Marathi: “अस्मारा”
  • Mazanderani: “اسمره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Asmara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asmara”
  • Minangkabau: “Asmara”
  • Mingrelian: “ასმერა”
  • Moksha: “Асмара”
  • Mongolian: “Асмара”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أسمارا”
  • Narom: “Asmara”
  • Neapolitan: “Asmara”
  • Northern Frisian: “Asmara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asmara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asmara”
  • Norwegian: “Asmara”
  • Novial: “Asmara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asmara”
  • Ossetian: “Асмэрæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸਮਾਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Asmara”
  • Persian: “اسمره”
  • Picard: “Asmara”
  • Piemontese: “Asmara”
  • Polish: “Asmara”
  • Portuguese: “Asmara”
  • Pushto: “اسمره”
  • Quechua: “Asmara”
  • Romanian: “Asmara”
  • Romanian: “Asmera”
  • Romansh: “Asmara”
  • Russian: “Асмэра”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱥᱢᱟᱨᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Asmara”
  • Scots: “Asmara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Asmara”
  • Serbian: “Asmara”
  • Serbian: “Асмара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asmara”
  • Shona: “Asmara”
  • Sicilian: “Asmara”
  • Silesian: “Asmara”
  • Sindhi: “اسمارا”
  • Sinhala: “අස්මාරා”
  • Slovak: “Asmara”
  • Slovenian: “Asmara”
  • Somali: “Asmara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسمره”
  • Spanish: “Asmara”
  • Swahili: “Asmara”
  • Swedish: “Asmara”
  • Swiss German: “Asmara”
  • Tagalog: “Asmara”
  • Tajik: “Асмэра”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்மாரா”
  • Telugu: “అస్మారా”
  • Thai: “แอสมารา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཱ་སི་མི་ར།”
  • Tigre: “አስመራ”
  • Tigre: “ኣስመራ”
  • Tigrinya: “Asmera”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣስመራ”
  • Turkish: “Asmara”
  • Turkmen: “Asmera”
  • Udmurt: “Асмэра”
  • Ukrainian: “Асмара”
  • Ukrainian: “Асмера”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Asmara”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Asmera”
  • Urdu: “اسمارا”
  • Uzbek: “Asmera”
  • Venetian: “Asmara”
  • Veps: “Asmar”
  • Vietnamese: “Asmara”
  • Vlaams: “Asmara”
  • Volapük: “Asmara”
  • Võro: “Asmara”
  • Walloon: “Asmara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asmara”
  • Welsh: “Asmara”
  • Western Frisian: “Asmara”
  • Western Mari: “Асмэра”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسمارا”
  • Wolof: “Asmara”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿斯马拉”
  • Yoruba: “Asmara”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿斯馬拉”
  • Zulu: “Asmara”
  • Zulu: “i-Asmara”
  • “Asmara”

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