Mekele
Mekele is in the Tigrayan Highlands in Ethiopia. It is the capital of the Tigray region and has a population of 200,000.
- Type: City with 185,000 residents
- Description: the capital city in the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “(2) Mekelle, Mekele.”, “Macalle”, “Makale”, “Maqalē”, “Maqalle”, “Mek’ele”, “Mek’elē”, “Mekelle”, “Meqele”, and “መቐለ Mek’elē”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mekelle University.
Mekelle University
University
Mekelle University is a higher education and training public institution located in Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, 783 kilometers north of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Mekele
- Categories: big city, special district of Ethiopia, and locality
- Location: Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.4967° or 13° 29′ 48″ north
Longitude
39.4768° or 39° 28′ 37″ east
Population
185,000
Elevation
2,068 metres (6,785 feet)
Open location code
7G5XFFWG+MP
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—“Mekele” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “መቀሌ”
- Amharic: “መቐለ”
- Arabic: “مقليه”
- Arabic: “ميكيلي”
- Armenian: “Մեկելե”
- Asturian: “Mek’ele”
- Basque: “Mek’ele”
- Basque: “Mekele”
- Belarusian: “Мэкэле”
- Bengali: “মেক’এলে”
- Breton: “Mek’ele”
- Catalan: “Mekele”
- Cebuano: “Mekele”
- Chinese: “默克萊”
- Chinese: “默格莱”
- Chinese: “默格萊”
- Croatian: “Mek’ele”
- Czech: “Mekele”
- Danish: “Mek’ele”
- Dutch: “Mek’ele”
- Dutch: “Mekele”
- Dutch: “Mekelle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه ميكيلى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميكيلى”
- Esperanto: “Mek’ele”
- Esperanto: “Mekele”
- Estonian: “Mek’ele”
- Finnish: “Mek’ele”
- Finnish: “Mekele”
- Finnish: “Mekelle”
- French: “Macallé”
- French: “Makalé”
- French: “Mék’élé”
- French: “Mekele”
- French: “Mekelé”
- French: “Mékélé”
- French: “Meqele”
- French: “Meqelé”
- Galician: “Makalle”
- Georgian: “მეკელე”
- German: “Makale”
- German: “Mek’ele”
- German: “Mekele”
- German: “Mekelle”
- German: “Meqele”
- Greek: “Μεκέλε”
- Gujarati: “મેકેલે”
- Hebrew: “מאקלה”
- Hebrew: “מקלה”
- Hindi: “मेक एले”
- Hungarian: “Mek’ele”
- Indonesian: “Mek’ele”
- Interlingue: “Mekele”
- Irish: “Mek’ele”
- Italian: “Macallé”
- Italian: “Macallè”
- Italian: “Mek’ele”
- Japanese: “メケレ”
- Japanese: “メックエル”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಕೆಲೆ”
- Korean: “메켈레”
- Latin: “Mek’ele”
- Latvian: “Mekele”
- Lithuanian: “Mekelė”
- Malay: “Mek’ele”
- Marathi: “मेके इल”
- Moksha: “Мэкэлэ”
- Mongolian: “Мэкэле”
- Northern Frisian: “Mek’ele”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mek´ele”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekele”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mekele”
- Norwegian: “Mekele”
- Persian: “مکله”
- Polish: “Mek’ele”
- Polish: “Mekelie”
- Portuguese: “Mek’ele”
- Portuguese: “Mekele”
- Romanian: “Mek’ele”
- Russian: “Мэкэле”
- Serbian: “Mekele”
- Serbian: “Мекеле”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mek’ele”
- Shona: “Mek’ele”
- Silesian: “Mekelie”
- Sinhala: “මෙකෙලේ”
- Slovenian: “Mek’ele”
- Slovenian: “Mekele”
- Somali: “Mekelle”
- Spanish: “Makale”
- Spanish: “Mekele”
- Swahili: “Mek’ele”
- Swahili: “Mekele”
- Swahili: “Mekelle”
- Swedish: “Mek’ele”
- Swedish: “Mekele”
- Tajik: “Мекеле”
- Tamil: “மெக்கல்லே”
- Tamil: “மெக்குவேலே”
- Telugu: “మెకెలే”
- Thai: “Mek’ele”
- Thai: “มาคาเล”
- Thai: “เมเคเล”
- Tigrinya: “መቐለ”
- Turkish: “Mek’ele”
- Turkish: “Mekelle”
- Ukrainian: “Мекеле”
- Urdu: “میکیلے”
- Uzbek: “Mekelle”
- Venetian: “Macallè”
- Vietnamese: “Makale”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mekele”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mekelle”
- Wolaytta: “Meqele”
- Yue Chinese: “默格萊”
- Zulu: “Mekelle”
- “Mekele”
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