Jimma

Jimma is a city in . Historically, it was a lively market town that attracted all of Ethiopia's diverse ethnic groups as well as people from neighboring kingdoms, buying coffee, perfume and other products.
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  • Type: City with 208,000 residents
  • Description: city in southwestern Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Djimma”, “Gima”, “Jimma Special Town”, “zone spécialle Jimma”, and “ጂማ / Jimma”

Jimma

Latitude
7.6756° or 7° 40′ 32″ north
Longitude
36.8479° or 36° 50′ 52″ east
Population
208,000
Elevation
1,719 metres (5,640 feet)
IATA airport code
JIM
UN/LOCODE
ET JIM
Open location code
6GVRMRGX+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2503575146
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
333772
Wiki­data ID
Q385341
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Jimma” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጅማ”
  • Arabic: “جيما”
  • Armenian: “Ջիմմա”
  • Asturian: “Jimma”
  • Basque: “Jima”
  • Bengali: “জিম্মা”
  • Catalan: “Jimma”
  • Cebuano: “Jīma”
  • Chinese: “吉姆马”
  • Chinese: “吉馬”
  • Chinese: “吉马”
  • Croatian: “Jimma”
  • Danish: “Jimma”
  • Dutch: “Jimma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيما”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝima”
  • Finnish: “Jimma”
  • French: “Jimma”
  • Galician: “Jimma”
  • German: “Jimma”
  • Greek: “Τζίμα”
  • Gujarati: “જિમ્મા”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ימה”
  • Hindi: “जिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Jimma”
  • Indonesian: “Jimma”
  • Irish: “Jimma”
  • Italian: “Gimma”
  • Japanese: “ジンマ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಮ್ಮಾ”
  • Korean: “짐마”
  • Latvian: “Džima”
  • Lithuanian: “Džima”
  • Malay: “Jimma”
  • Marathi: “जिममा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Djima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jimma”
  • Norwegian: “Jimma”
  • Oromo: “Jimma”
  • Persian: “جیما”
  • Polish: “Dżimma”
  • Portuguese: “Jima”
  • Romanian: “Jimma”
  • Russian: “Джимма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džima”
  • Shona: “Jimma”
  • Sinhala: “ජිම්මා”
  • Slovak: “Džimma”
  • Spanish: “Jima”
  • Swahili: “Jimma”
  • Swedish: “Jima”
  • Tajik: “Ҷимма”
  • Tamil: “ஜீம்மா”
  • Telugu: “జిమ్మా”
  • Thai: “กิมเมลวาลด์”
  • Turkish: “Cimma”
  • Turkish: “Jimma”
  • Ukrainian: “Джимма”
  • Urdu: “جیما”
  • Urdu: “جیمما”
  • Venetian: “Gimma”
  • Vietnamese: “Jimma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jimma”
  • Zulu: “Jimma, Itiyopiya”
  • Zulu: “Jimma”

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