Jimma
Jimma is a city in Western Ethiopia. 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.
- Type: City with 208,000 residents
- Description: city in southwestern Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Djimma”, “Gima”, “Gimma”, “Jima”, “Jimma Special Town”, and “ጂማ / Jimma”
Jimma
- Categories: big city, district of Ethiopia, and locality
- Location: Oromiya, Western Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
United Nations Location Code
ET JIM
Open location code
6GVRMRGX+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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: “Jima”
- French: “Jimma”
- French: “zone spécialle 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”
- Northern Frisian: “Jimma”
- 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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