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Northern Ethiopia
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Bahir Dar

Bahir Dar, also spelt Bahar Dar, on the southern shore of Lake Tana, the biggest lake in , is the third largest city in the nation, after and , with a population of half a million.
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  • Type: City with 350,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Babardur Georgis”, “Bahar”, “Bahar Dar Ghiorghis”, “Bāherdār-Giyorgis”, “Bahrdar Giyergio”, and “Bahrdar Giyorgis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bahir Dar Stadium.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose venue located in Bahir Dar, of . Primarily used for football matches, the stadium also features facilities for athletics.

Bahir Dar

Latitude
11.595° or 11° 35′ 42″ north
Longitude
37.3882° or 37° 23′ 18″ east
Population
350,000
Elevation
1,799 metres (5,902 feet)
IATA airport code
BJR
United Nations Location Code
ET BJR
Open location code
7G3VH9VQ+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 71612929
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
342884
Wiki­data ID
Q464699
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Satellite Map

Discover Bahir Dar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bahir Dar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bahir Dar”
  • Amharic: “ባህር ዳር”
  • Amharic: “ባህርዳር”
  • Amharic: “ባሕር ዳር”
  • Amharic: “ባሕር-ዳር”
  • Arabic: “بحر دار”
  • Asturian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Basque: “Bahir Dar”
  • Belarusian: “Бахр-Дар”
  • Bengali: “বাহিরদার”
  • Breton: “Bahir Dar”
  • Catalan: “Bahir Dar”
  • Cebuano: “Bahir Dar”
  • Chinese: “巴赫达尔”
  • Chinese: “巴赫達爾”
  • Croatian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Danish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Dutch: “Bahar Dar”
  • Dutch: “Bahir Dar”
  • Dutch: “Bahr Dar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحر دار”
  • Esperanto: “Bahar Dar”
  • Esperanto: “Baher Dar”
  • Esperanto: “Bahir Dar”
  • Esperanto: “Bahyr Dar”
  • Finnish: “Bahir Dar”
  • French: “Bahar Dar”
  • French: “Baher Dar”
  • French: “Bahir Dar”
  • Georgian: “ბაჰრ-დარი”
  • German: “Bahar Dar”
  • German: “Bahir Dar”
  • Greek: “Μπαχίρ Νταρ”
  • Greek: “Μπαχρ-Νταρ”
  • Gujarati: “બહિર દાર”
  • Hausa: “Baher Dar”
  • Hebrew: “בהר דר”
  • Hindi: “बहिर दर”
  • Hungarian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Indonesian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Irish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Italian: “Bahar Dar”
  • Italian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Italian: “Bahrdàr”
  • Japanese: “バハルダール”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಹಿರ್ ದಾರ್”
  • Korean: “바히르다르”
  • Latin: “Bahar Dar”
  • Latin: “Bahir Dar”
  • Latvian: “Bahirdara”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahir Daras”
  • Malay: “Bahir Dar”
  • Marathi: “बहिर दार”
  • Moksha: “Багр Дар”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahir Dar”
  • Norwegian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Persian: “بحر دار”
  • Persian: “بهیر دار”
  • Polish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Polish: “Bahyr Dar”
  • Portuguese: “Bahir Dar”
  • Romanian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Russian: “Бахр-Дар”
  • Serbian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Serbian: “Бахир Дар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Shona: “Bahir Dar”
  • Sinhala: “බහිර් ඩර්”
  • Slovenian: “Bahir Dar”
  • Spanish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Swahili: “Bahir Dar”
  • Swedish: “Bahar Dar”
  • Swedish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Swedish: “Bahr Dar”
  • Tamil: “பஹிர் டர்”
  • Tamil: “பாகிர்தார்”
  • Telugu: “బాహిర్ దార్”
  • Thai: “บาไฮร์ดาร์”
  • Turkish: “Bahir Dar”
  • Ukrainian: “Багр-Дар”
  • Ukrainian: “Бахр-Дар”
  • Urdu: “بحر دار”
  • Venetian: “Bahar Dar”
  • Veps: “Bahr Dar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bahir Dar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bahir Dar”
  • Zulu: “Bahir Dar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bahir Dar”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.