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Danakil Depression

geological depression, northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia
Place depression Q14213070

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
depression, endorheic basin[4]

Location

Country
Ethiopia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 14.242°, 40.300°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Afar Region[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
-125[9]
More facts +3
Part of
Afar Triangle[5]
Different from
Afar Triangle, Danakil Desert, Danakil mountain[6][7][8]
P14541
1tqDul[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Danakil Depression ar منخفض داناكل cs Danakilská proláklina de Danakil-Senke de Danakil-Depression de Danakilsenke el Βύθισμα Ντανακίλ es Depresión de Danakil fi Danakilin syvänkö fr Dancalie fr Dépression Danakil fr dépression de Danakil fr Dépression de Dancalie he שקע דנקיל hi दनाकिल डिप्रेसन hu Danakil-mélyföld it Dancalia ja ダナキル低地 nl Danakildepressie pl depresja Danakilska
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
ET Afar asv2018-01 img46 Dallol.jpg ↗
Encyclopaedia Beliana ID
danakilska-preliacina
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
563803
Freebase ID
/m/0h5299q
GNS Unique Feature ID
453757
GeoNames ID
416461
Mapy.com ID
area&id=139313
NL CR AUT ID
xx0334655
OpenStreetMap node ID
1150881771
OpenStreetMap way ID
1392803463
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
dancalia
Yale LUX ID
place/56ac1c87-862c-45a2-8e94-c1d08b84d111
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Asmara 2026-09-26 T/DPR · ET GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
← Different from 4
Afar Region, Danakil Desert, Afar Triangle, Danakil mountain
Different from 3
Danakil Desert, Afar Triangle, Danakil mountain
Instance of 2
endorheic basin, depression
Belongs to 1
Afar Triangle
Country 1
Ethiopia
Has these parts 1
Ale Bagu
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Afar Region
Part of 1
Afar Triangle
← Drainage basin 1
Dallol
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Gaet'ale Pond
← Lowest point 1
Ethiopia
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Summary

Danakil Depression is a depression[1].

Related Entities

Ethiopia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1tqDul
    Instance of → depression, endorheic basin
    Coordinates → —
    Country → Ethiopia
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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