Adwa is a town and separate woreda in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, located in the region's Central Zone at an elevation of about 1,907 meters. It is best known as the community closest to the site of the 1896 Battle of Adwa, in which Ethiopian forces defeated Italian troops, making Ethiopia one of the few African nations to directly repel European colonial conquest. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude14.166667 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Adwa (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 40,500 (2007)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 14.166667, longitude 38.9
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 1907 m
P2046 (area)
area 12.0 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 40500 (2007)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Adwa - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 344797
14.16347 38.89924 P PPL ET 53 85600 1895 Africa/Addis_Ababa
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 1895 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 14.25, 38.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 14.25, 38.75
14.25 38.75 BSh
Adwa (Wikipedia)
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Adwa (Tigrinya: ዓድዋ; Amharic: ዐድዋ; Arabic: عدوة also spelled Adowa or Aduwa) is a town and separate woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia.
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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