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Southern Ethiopia
Oromiya

Ziway

Ziway, also called Zway or Batu, is a town on the shore of Lake Ziway, a Rift Valley lake, in Oromia, . Lake Ziway is the closest major Rift Valley lake to , 162 km south of Addis Ababa.
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  • Type: Town with 35,900 residents
  • Description: place in Oromia, Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Batu” and “Zwai”

Ziway

Latitude
7.9358° or 7° 56′ 9″ north
Longitude
38.7165° or 38° 42′ 59″ east
Population
35,900
Elevation
1,649 metres (5,410 feet)
Open location code
6GVWWPP8+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 318126326
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
325579
Wiki­data ID
Q2570767
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Ziway” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባቱ”
  • Asturian: “Batu”
  • Cebuano: “Ziway”
  • Chinese: “兹怀”
  • Chinese: “茲懷”
  • Croatian: “Zivaj”
  • Dutch: “Ziway”
  • French: “Batu”
  • French: “Zeway”
  • French: “Ziway”
  • German: “Baatuu”
  • German: “Batu”
  • German: “Zeway”
  • German: “Ziway”
  • German: “Zway”
  • Hebrew: “באטו”
  • Italian: “Ziway”
  • Italian: “Zuai”
  • Javanese: “Ziway”
  • Oromo: “Baatuu”
  • Polish: “Ziway”
  • Romanian: “Ziway”
  • Russian: “Звай”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zivaj”
  • Swedish: “Ziway”
  • Zulu: “Ziway”

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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 “Ziway”. Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.