Lalibela
Lalibela is a rural town of 15,000 people in a stunning setting at an elevation of 2,600 m in the midst of the Lasta mountains in the eastern highlands of Northern Ethiopia.
- Town with 8,480 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 2,481 metres (8,140 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LLI
- Description: Town of Ethiopia
- Also known as“Labibela”“Lālibalā”
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Lalibela
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Latitude
12.0361° or 12° 2′ 10″ north
Longitude
39.0457° or 39° 2′ 45″ east
UN/LOCODE
ET LLI
Open location code
7G4X22PW+C7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lalibela” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lalibela”
- Amharic: “ላሊበላ”
- Arabic: “لاليبيلا”
- Aragonese: “Lalibela”
- Armenian: “Լալիբելա”
- Asturian: “Lalibela”
- Azerbaijani: “Lalibela”
- Bashkir: “Лалибэла”
- Basque: “Lalibela”
- Belarusian: “Лалібэла”
- Bengali: “লালিবেলা”
- Breton: “Lalibela”
- Bulgarian: “Лалибела”
- Burmese: “လာလီဘယ်လာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Lalibela”
- Cebuano: “Lalībela”
- Chinese: “拉利貝拉”
- Chinese: “拉利贝拉”
- Croatian: “Lalibela”
- Czech: “Lalibela”
- Danish: “Klippekirkerne i Lalibela”
- Dutch: “Lalibela”
- Dutch: “Roha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاليبيلا”
- Esperanto: “Lalibela”
- Esperanto: “Lalibelo”
- Finnish: “Lalibela”
- French: “Lalibela”
- French: “Lalibella”
- Galician: “Lalibela”
- German: “Lalibäla”
- German: “Lalibela”
- German: “Roha”
- Greek: “Λαλιμπέλα”
- Hebrew: “הכנסיות החצובות בסלע בלליבלה”
- Hebrew: “לליבלה”
- Indonesian: “Lalibela”
- Irish: “Eaglaisí Lalibela”
- Italian: “Lalibela”
- Japanese: “ラリベラ”
- Korean: “랄리벨라”
- Latin: “Lalibela”
- Lithuanian: “Lalibela”
- Lithuanian: “Lalibelos bažnyčios”
- Lithuanian: “Roha”
- Malayalam: “ലലിബെല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lalibela”
- Norwegian: “Lalibela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lalibela”
- Oromo: “Laalibalaa”
- Persian: “کلیساهای سنگی لالیبلا”
- Persian: “کلیساهای کوهکند”
- Persian: “لالی بلا”
- Persian: “لالیبلا”
- Persian: “لالیبلا”
- Polish: “Lalibela”
- Portuguese: “Lalibela”
- Romanian: “Lalibela”
- Russian: “Лалибела”
- Russian: “Лалибэла”
- Serbian: “Lalibela”
- Serbian: “Лалибела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lalibela”
- Slovak: “Lalibala”
- Slovak: “Lalibäla”
- Slovak: “Lalíbäla”
- Slovak: “Lalibela”
- Slovenian: “Lalibela”
- Spanish: “Lalibela”
- Swahili: “Lalibela, Ethiopia”
- Swahili: “Lalibela”
- Swedish: “Lalibela”
- Telugu: “లాలిబెలా”
- Thai: “ลาลีเบอลา”
- Ukrainian: “Лалібела”
- Urdu: “لالیبیلا”
- Vietnamese: “Giáo đường nham thạch Lalibela”
- Vietnamese: “Lalibela”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà thờ tạc đá ở Lalibela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lalibela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rock-Hewn Churches”
- Yue Chinese: “拉利貝拉”
- Zulu: “Lalibela”
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