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South Ethiopia Regional State

Konso

Karat is a town in south-western and the capital of the in the new South Ethiopia Regional State. Situated 20 km north of the Sagan River at an elevation of 1,650 metres, it is also called Pakawle by some of the neighboring inhabitants.
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  • Type: Locality with 4,590 residents
  • Description: small town in south-western Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Karati”

Konso

Latitude
5.25° or 5° 15′ north
Longitude
37.5° or 37° 30′ east
Population
4,590
Elevation
1,031 metres (3,383 feet)
Open location code
6GQV7G22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1150883213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
332817
Wiki­data ID
Q575352
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Konso” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كونسو”
  • Armenian: “Կոնսո (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Կոնսո”
  • Asturian: “Konso”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konso”
  • Catalan: “Konso”
  • Cebuano: “Konso”
  • Chinese: “孔索”
  • Croatian: “Konso”
  • Danish: “Konso”
  • Dutch: “Konso”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونسو”
  • Esperanto: “Konso”
  • Finnish: “Konso”
  • French: “Konso”
  • Georgian: “კონსო”
  • German: “Karat Konso”
  • German: “Konso”
  • Hausa: “Konso”
  • Hebrew: “הנוף התרבותי של קונסו”
  • Irish: “Konso”
  • Italian: “Karati”
  • Italian: “Konso”
  • Japanese: “コンソ”
  • Lithuanian: “Konsas”
  • Maltese: “Karati”
  • Maltese: “Konso”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Konso”
  • Persian: “کونسو”
  • Polish: “Konso”
  • Portuguese: “Konso”
  • Romanian: “Konso”
  • Russian: “Консо”
  • Slovenian: “Konso”
  • Spanish: “Karati”
  • Spanish: “Konso”
  • Spanish: “Pakawle”
  • Swedish: “Karat, Etiopien”
  • Swedish: “Konso”
  • Turkish: “Konso”
  • Vietnamese: “Cảnh quan văn hóa Konso”
  • Vietnamese: “Konso”
  • Zulu: “Konso, SNNPR”

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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 Wikipedia page “Konso”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.