Ethiopia
Eastern Ethiopia
Harari Region

Harar

Harar is an ancient city in eastern . Harar Jugol, the old walled city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is considered the fourth holiest city of Islam by Sunni Muslims, with 82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th century, and 102 shrines.
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  • Type: City with 132,000 residents
  • Description: city in the east of Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Gey”, “Harär”, “Hārar”, “Harar Jugol”, “Harar-Gey”, “Harärgeyi”, “Hararghe”, “Hārer”, “Harrar”, “Harrar, Hārer, Harer”, and “Kharer”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town.

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Harar

Latitude
9.3118° or 9° 18′ 43″ north
Longitude
42.1284° or 42° 7′ 42″ east
Population
132,000
Elevation
1,917 metres (6,289 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ET HAR
Open location code
6HX4846H+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 298296166
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
335035
Wiki­data ID
Q190184
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Harar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Harar”
  • Amharic: “ሀረር”
  • Amharic: “ሃረር”
  • Amharic: “ሃረርን”
  • Amharic: “ህረር”
  • Amharic: “ሐረር”
  • Arabic: “هرر”
  • Armenian: “Հարեր”
  • Asturian: “Harar Jugol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Harar”
  • Basque: “Harar”
  • Basque: “Harer”
  • Basque: “Harrar”
  • Belarusian: “Харэр”
  • Bengali: “হারা”
  • Breton: “Harar”
  • Bulgarian: “Харар”
  • Catalan: “Harar”
  • Catalan: “Harrar”
  • Catalan: “Sultanat d’Harar”
  • Catalan: “Sultanat de Harar”
  • Cebuano: “Harar”
  • Chinese: “哈勒尔”
  • Chinese: “哈勒爾”
  • Croatian: “Harar”
  • Czech: “Harar”
  • Danish: “Harar”
  • Danish: “Härer”
  • Dutch: “Harar Jugol”
  • Dutch: “Harar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هرر”
  • Esperanto: “Harar”
  • Estonian: “Harar”
  • Estonian: “Harer”
  • Finnish: “Harar”
  • French: “Harar Jugol”
  • French: “Harar”
  • French: “Harer”
  • French: “Harrar”
  • Galician: “Harar”
  • Georgian: “ჰარარი”
  • German: “Harar”
  • German: “Harer”
  • German: “Harrar”
  • Greek: “Χαράρ”
  • Greek: “Χάραρ”
  • Greek: “Χαρέρ”
  • Gujarati: “હરાર”
  • Hausa: “Harar”
  • Hebrew: “הראר”
  • Hebrew: “הרר”
  • Hindi: “हरार”
  • Hungarian: “Harar”
  • Indonesian: “Harar”
  • Irish: “Harar Jugol”
  • Italian: “Harar Jugol”
  • Italian: “Harar”
  • Italian: “Harrar”
  • Japanese: “ハラール (エチオピア)”
  • Japanese: “ハラール”
  • Kannada: “ಹರಾರ್”
  • Korean: “하라르”
  • Kotava: “Harar”
  • Latin: “Harar”
  • Latvian: “Harera”
  • Lithuanian: “Hararas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hareras”
  • Malay: “Harar”
  • Maltese: “Harar”
  • Marathi: “हरार, इथियोपिया”
  • Marathi: “हरार”
  • N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߋߦ”
  • N'Ko: “ߝ߭ߊߙ ߤߙߊߙ”
  • N'Ko: “ߤߙߊߙ ߖߎߜ߭ߐߟ”
  • N'Ko: “ߤߙߊߙ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harar Jugol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harar”
  • Norwegian: “Harar”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਰਰ”
  • Persian: “هرر”
  • Polish: “Harar”
  • Polish: “Harer”
  • Portuguese: “Harar”
  • Romanian: “Harar”
  • Russian: “Харар”
  • Russian: “Харрар”
  • Russian: “Харэр”
  • Serbian: “Harar”
  • Serbian: “Харар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harar”
  • Shona: “Harar”
  • Sinhala: “හරාර්”
  • Slovak: “Harar”
  • Slovenian: “Harar”
  • Somali: “Harar”
  • Somali: “Herer”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرر”
  • Spanish: “Harar Jugol”
  • Spanish: “Harar”
  • Spanish: “Harrar Jugol”
  • Spanish: “Harrar”
  • Swahili: “Harar”
  • Swahili: “Harrar”
  • Swedish: “Harar Jugol”
  • Swedish: “Harar, Etiopien”
  • Swedish: “Harar”
  • Swedish: “Harer”
  • Tamil: “ஹரார்”
  • Telugu: “హరార్”
  • Thai: “แฮแรร์”
  • Turkish: “Harar”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарер”
  • Ukrainian: “Харер”
  • Urdu: “ہرار”
  • Venetian: “Harar”
  • Vietnamese: “Harar”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố - pháo đài lịch sử Harar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Harar”
  • Welsh: “Harar”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہرار”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈勒尔”
  • Zulu: “Harar”

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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 “Harar”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 2.0.