Gondar
Gondar is a historic royal city of Ethiopia, in the northern Amhara region. It was the home of many emperors and princesses who ruled the country from the 12th century to the last decade of the 20th century, including Suseneos, Fasiledes, Empress Mentwab, Iyasu I, Tewodros II and Empress Taitu.
- Type: City with 213,000 residents
- Description: city, former capital of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Gondaras”, “Gonder”, “Gwender”, “Gwonder”, “ጎንደር”, “ጐንደር”, and “ゴンダル”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fasil Ghebbi and Dawit’s Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wolleka.
Gondar
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Amhara, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.6104° or 12° 36′ 37″ north
Longitude
37.4668° or 37° 28′ 0″ east
Population
213,000
Elevation
2,201 metres (7,221 feet)
IATA airport code
GDQ
UN/LOCODE
ET GDQ
Open location code
7G4VJF68+4P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gondar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gondar”
- Amharic: “ጎንደር ከተማ”
- Arabic: “غوندر”
- Arabic: “قوندر”
- Armenian: “Գոնդեր”
- Asturian: “Gondar”
- Basque: “Gonder”
- Belarusian: “Гондэр”
- Bengali: “গন্ডার”
- Breton: “Gondar”
- Bulgarian: “Гондар”
- Catalan: “Gondar”
- Catalan: “Gonder”
- Cebuano: “Gondar”
- Chinese: “貢德爾”
- Chinese: “贡德尔”
- Croatian: “Gondar”
- Czech: “Gondar”
- Danish: “Gonder”
- Dutch: “Gondar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوندر”
- Esperanto: “Gondero”
- Finnish: “Gondar”
- French: “Gondar”
- Galician: “Gondar, Etiopía”
- German: “Gondar”
- German: “Gonder”
- Greek: “Γκόνταιρ”
- Greek: “Γκοντάρ”
- Gujarati: “ગોંડર”
- Hausa: “Gondar”
- Hebrew: “גונדר”
- Hindi: “गोंडर”
- Hindi: “गोंदर”
- Hungarian: “Gondar”
- Indonesian: “Gondar”
- Interlingue: “Gondar”
- Irish: “Gondar”
- Italian: “Gondar”
- Japanese: “ゴンダール”
- Kannada: “ಗೊಂನ್ದಾರ್”
- Kazakh: “Гондер”
- Korean: “곤다르”
- Latin: “Gondar”
- Latvian: “Gondera”
- Lithuanian: “Gonderas”
- Malay: “Gondar”
- Marathi: “गोंदर”
- Moksha: “Гондэр”
- Mongolian: “Гондэр”
- Northern Frisian: “Gondar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gonder”
- Norwegian: “Gonder”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gondar”
- Persian: “قندار”
- Persian: “گوندار”
- Polish: “Gonder”
- Portuguese: “Gondar”
- Romanian: “Gondar”
- Russian: “Гондар”
- Russian: “Гондэр”
- Serbian: “Gondar”
- Serbian: “Гондар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gondar”
- Shona: “Gondar”
- Sinhala: “ගොන්ඩර්”
- Slovenian: “Gondar”
- South Azerbaijani: “قوندار”
- Spanish: “Gondar”
- Swahili: “Gondar”
- Swedish: “Gonder”
- Tajik: “Гондар”
- Tamil: “கொண்டார்”
- Tatar: “Гондар”
- Telugu: “గొండర్”
- Thai: “กอนดาร์”
- Turkish: “Gondar”
- Ukrainian: “Ґондер”
- Urdu: “جوندار”
- Urdu: “گونڈر”
- Venetian: “Gondar”
- Vietnamese: “Gondar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gondar”
- Zulu: “Gondar”
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