Metehara
Sign in to saveMetehara (, ) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 947 meters above sea level.
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Place details
- Locality
- Metahara
- Region
- ኦሮሚያ ክልል Oromia أوروميا
- Country
- ኢትዮጵያ
- Population
- 23,403
- Timezone
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
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- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Located in
- Misraq Shewa Zone
- Elevation
- 947
- Image
- 1983 - panoramio - z-pinch (8).jpg
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Metehara (, ) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 947 meters above sea level.
Access to Metehara includes a station on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. There is a Tuesday livestock market. Notable local landmarks include Metehara Mikael Bet church, Mount Fentale to the north, Awash National Park to the northeast, and Lake Basaka to the south of the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metehara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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