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Nekemte
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Vinony's link graph records 430 inbound references to Nekemte, and connects out to Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, district of Ethiopia and Ambo.
Vinony files it under Cities and towns in Ethiopia and Populated places in the Oromia.
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- Locality
- ነቀምት Nekemte نقمتى
- Region
- ኦሮሚያ ክልል Oromia أوروميا
- Country
- ኢትዮጵያ
- Population
- 156,000
- Timezone
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Nekemte
- Settlement.native_name
- Naqamtee
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- om
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ethiopia#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Ethiopia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Zone
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- East Welega
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2007
- Settlement.population_total
- 75219
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- EAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 2088
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 75219
- Area
- 29.5
- Elevation
- 2088
- Image
- Nekemte.jpg
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- P12749
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Encyclopedic overview
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Nekemte, also spelled as Neqemte (, Amharic: ነቀምት), is a market city and separate woreda in western Ethiopia. Located in the East Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, Nekemte has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,088 meters.
Nekemte was the capital of the former East Welega, and is home to a museum of Machaa Oromo culture. It is a burial place of Onesimos Nesib, a famous Oromo who translated the Bible to Oromo Language for the first time, in collaboration with Aster Ganno. It is also the seat of an Apostolic Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church. Nekemte is host to Wollega University. It is served by an airport.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nekemte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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