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Goba
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Goba (Oromo: '''', Amharic: ጎባ) is a town and separate woreda located in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region, Ethiopia, approximately southeast of Addis Ababa, this city has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of above sea level.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in ET, across 5 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 380 inbound references to Goba, and connects out to Amharic, oceanic climate and Ambo.
Vinony files it under Cities and towns in Ethiopia and Populated places in the Oromia.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Goba
- Region
- ኦሮሚያ ክልል Oromia أوروميا
- Country
- ኢትዮጵያ
- Population
- 66,500
- Timezone
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Goba
- Settlement.other_name
- Bale Goba
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Men at work in Goba.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Photo taken while in Goba Wednesday Market
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ethiopia#Africa#Earth
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Ethiopia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ethiopia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Oromia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Zone
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bale
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Goba
- Settlement.leader_title
- Current Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Shimels Alemu
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Ethiopia
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Located in
- Bale Zone
- Population
- 32025
- Area
- 20.15
- Elevation
- 2682
- Image
- Men at work in Goba.jpg
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- Goba
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Climate
- References
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Ethiopian Airlines has a scheduled flight four times a week connecting Goba to the capital Addis Ababa and to the southern city Arba Minch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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