Dire Dawa

Dire Dawa is a city in eastern near the and border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia. Dire Dawa alongside present-day were a part of the Dire Dawa autonomous region of the Somali Region stipulated in the 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the federal government into a separately administered chartered city.
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  • Type: City with 398,000 residents
  • Description: chartered city of Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “D’ire Daua”, “Daredawa”, “Dirdabò”, “Dire Daba”, “Dire Dewa”, “Direaoua”, and “Dirediua”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dire Dawa Stadium and Old Train Station of Dire Dawa.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose in Dire Dawa, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, on club level by Dire Dawa City of the Ethiopian Premier League. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 spectators.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
Dire Dawa International Airport, is an serving Dire Dawa, a city in eastern . It is located 5 km northwest of the city centre.

Dire Dawa

Latitude
9.5913° or 9° 35′ 29″ north
Longitude
41.8566° or 41° 51′ 24″ east
Population
398,000
Elevation
1,204 metres (3,950 feet)
IATA airport code
DIR
United Nations Location Code
ET DIR
Open location code
6HX3HVR4+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 298296168
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
338832
Wiki­data ID
Q193486
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Dire Dawa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ድሬ ዳዋ”
  • Amharic: “ድሬዳዋ”
  • Arabic: “دير داوا”
  • Arabic: “ديرة داوا”
  • Arabic: “ديره داوا”
  • Armenian: “Дырэ-Дауа”
  • Armenian: “Դիրե Դաուա”
  • Asturian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dıre-Daua”
  • Basque: “Dire Dawa”
  • Belarusian: “Дырэ-Дауа”
  • Belarusian: “Дырэ-Даўа”
  • Bengali: “ডাইরে ডাওয়”
  • Bengali: “দির দাওয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “डिरे डावा”
  • Breton: “Dire Dawa”
  • Bulgarian: “Дире Дава”
  • Catalan: “Consell Administratiu Dire Dawa”
  • Catalan: “Dire Dawa”
  • Cebuano: “Dire Dawa Zone”
  • Chinese: “德雷达瓦”
  • Chinese: “德雷达瓦市”
  • Chinese: “德雷達瓦”
  • Chinese: “德雷達華”
  • Croatian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Czech: “Dire Dawa”
  • Danish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Dutch: “Dire Dawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديرة داوا”
  • Esperanto: “Dire-Daŭo”
  • Estonian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Finnish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Finnish: “Diredawa”
  • French: “Diré Daoua”
  • French: “Dire Dawa”
  • French: “Diré Dawa”
  • French: “Diré-Daoua”
  • Galician: “Dire Dawa”
  • Georgian: “დირე-დაუა”
  • German: “Dire Dawa”
  • German: “Diredaua”
  • German: “ET-DD”
  • Greek: “Ντήρε-Δάουα”
  • Greek: “Ντίρε Ντάουα”
  • Gujarati: “ડિરે ડાવા”
  • Gujarati: “ડીરે ડાવા”
  • Hausa: “Dire Dawa”
  • Hebrew: “דירה דאווה”
  • Hindi: “डायर डावा”
  • Hindi: “डिरे डावा”
  • Hungarian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Indonesian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Irish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Italian: “Dire Daua”
  • Italian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Italian: “Diredaua”
  • Italian: “Diredawa”
  • Japanese: “ジレダワ”
  • Japanese: “ディレ・ダワ”
  • Japanese: “ディレダワ”
  • Kannada: “ಡೈರ್ ದವಾ”
  • Korean: “디레 다와”
  • Korean: “디레다와”
  • Latin: “Dire Dawa”
  • Latvian: “Dire Dava”
  • Latvian: “Diredava”
  • Lithuanian: “Dire Dava”
  • Lithuanian: “Dirė Dava”
  • Lithuanian: “Diredava”
  • Malay: “Dire Dawa”
  • Marathi: “डिरे डावा”
  • Marathi: “डिरे दावा”
  • Moksha: “Дырэ Дава”
  • Mongolian: “Дыре-Дауа”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dire Dawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dire Dawa”
  • Norwegian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dire Daua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dire Dawa”
  • Oromo: “Dirre Dhawaa”
  • Oromo: “Dirree Dhawaa”
  • Persian: “دیرداوه”
  • Polish: “Dire Daua”
  • Polish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Polish: “Dyrie Daua”
  • Portuguese: “Dire Daua”
  • Portuguese: “Dire Dawa”
  • Portuguese: “Dire-Dawa”
  • Romanian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Russian: “Диредавы”
  • Russian: “Дыре-Дауа”
  • Scots: “Dire Dawa”
  • Serbian: “Dire Dava”
  • Serbian: “Дире Дава”
  • Serbian: “Диредава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dire Dava”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dire Dawa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dire-Dava”
  • Shona: “Dire Dawa”
  • Sinhala: “ඩයර් ඩවා”
  • Somali: “Diridhabe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیرداوه”
  • Spanish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Swahili: “Dire Dawa”
  • Swedish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Swedish: “Dirē Dawa”
  • Tamil: “டயர் டாவா”
  • Tamil: “டிரே டாவா”
  • Tamil: “திரே தாவா”
  • Telugu: “డైర్ డావా”
  • Thai: “ดิเร ดาวา”
  • Thai: “ไดล์ ดาวา”
  • Turkish: “Dire Dawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Дире-Дауа”
  • Urdu: “دیرہ داوا”
  • Uzbek: “Diredaua”
  • Uzbek: “Diredava”
  • Venetian: “Dire Daua”
  • Vietnamese: “Dire Dawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dire Dawa”
  • Western Armenian: “Տիրէ Տաուա”
  • Wu Chinese: “德雷达瓦”
  • Yue Chinese: “德雷達華”
  • Zulu: “Dire Dawa”
  • “डिरे डावा”

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