Eritrea
Anseba Region
Keren subregion

Keren

Sitting in the picturesque foothills of northern , Keren is the country's second-largest city and regional capital of the surrounding districts.
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  • Type: City with 86,400 residents
  • Description: city in Eritrea
  • Also known as: “Hamelmalo” and “Keren, Eritrea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Keren.

Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Keren

Latitude
15.7805° or 15° 46′ 50″ north
Longitude
38.4536° or 38° 27′ 13″ east
Population
86,400
Elevation
1,399 metres (4,590 feet)
Open location code
7G7WQFJ3+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317162067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
333287
Wiki­data ID
Q534409
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Keren” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرن”
  • Arabic: “كَرَن”
  • Asturian: “Keren”
  • Basque: “Keren”
  • Bengali: “কেরেন, ইরিত্রিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Keren”
  • Cebuano: “Keren”
  • Chinese: “克伦”
  • Croatian: “Keren”
  • Czech: “Keren”
  • Danish: “Keren”
  • Dutch: “Keren”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرن”
  • Esperanto: “Kereno”
  • Finnish: “Keren”
  • French: “Keren”
  • Georgian: “კერენი”
  • German: “Keren”
  • Greek: “Κερέν”
  • Gujarati: “કેરેન, એરિટ્રિયા”
  • Hebrew: “קרן”
  • Hindi: “केरेन”
  • Indonesian: “Keren, Eritrea”
  • Irish: “Keren”
  • Italian: “Cheren”
  • Japanese: “ケレン”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರೆನ್, ಎರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “케렌”
  • Latin: “Keren”
  • Latvian: “Kerena”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerenas”
  • Malay: “Keren, Eritrea”
  • Marathi: “केरेन, इरिट्रिया”
  • Mongolian: “Кэрэн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Keren”
  • Norwegian: “Keren”
  • Persian: “کرن (اریتره)”
  • Persian: “کرن”
  • Polish: “Keren”
  • Portuguese: “Keren”
  • Romanian: “Keren”
  • Russian: “Керен”
  • Russian: “Кэрэн”
  • Shona: “Keren, Eritrea”
  • Sinhala: “කෙරෙන් එරිත්‍රියා”
  • Slovenian: “Keren”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرن (اریتره)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرن”
  • Spanish: “Keren”
  • Swahili: “Keren”
  • Swedish: “Keren”
  • Tamil: “கெரென், எரித்ரேயா”
  • Telugu: “కరేన్”
  • Thai: “เคเรน, อีริเทร”
  • Tigre: “ከረን”
  • Tigrinya: “Keren”
  • Tigrinya: “ከረን”
  • Turkish: “Keren, Eritrea”
  • Turkish: “Keren”
  • Ukrainian: “Керен”
  • Urdu: “کیرین، ارتریا”
  • Venetian: “Cheren”
  • Veps: “Keren”
  • Vietnamese: “Keren, Eritrea”
  • Zulu: “Keren, Eritrea”

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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 “Keren”. Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.