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Dire Dawa

chartered city of Ethiopia
Organization region_of_ethiopia Q193486

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
region of Ethiopia, city, big city[3][4]
Official website
web.archive.org[8]
Native label
Diridhabe[11]
Official name
Diridhabe[10]

Status and dates

Inception
1902[7]

Location

Country
Ethiopia[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 9.583°, 41.867°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ethiopia[1]
More facts +6
Area
+1213[13]
Elevation above sea level
+1276[12]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Ethiopia/Dire Dawa
Language used
Somali, Harari[14][15]
Population
+277000[9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 277,000 GeoNames 493,000 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Somali Region, Oromia Region[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Dire Dawa ar ديره داوا ar ديرة داوا de ET-DD de Diredaua el Ντίρε Ντάουα el Ντήρε-Δάουα fa دیرداوه fi Diredawa fr Diré-Daoua fr Diré Dawa he דירה דאווה hi डायर डावा hi डिरे डावा it Diredawa it Diredaua it Dire Daua it Dire Dawa ja ジレダワ ja ディレ・ダワ
🔖 Identifiers · 34
VIAF cluster ID
151294319
Library of Congress authority ID
n82104372
GND ID
4119829-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
MosqueDireDawa.JPG ↗
BBC Things ID
1f8c4d53-309e-42fa-a3e5-4e86eec6a7fe
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Dire-Dawa
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
ET48
Facebook location ID
109619739057868
Freebase ID
/m/04lj5y
GNS Unique Feature ID
9087444
GeoNames ID
444182
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 444182 GND (DNB) 338832 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7594693
Show all 34 identifiers +22
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
dire-dawa
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0264791
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Dire_Dawa
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1971878
INaturalist place ID
10566
ISO 3166-2 code
ET-DD
Lex ID
Dire_Dawa
MusicBrainz area ID
c37f15fb-78f1-4117-8310-43aad0f3369f
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555141905171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3892925
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1707654
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtOzImkq9042
Quora topic ID
Dire-Dawa-Ethiopia
SNARC ID
Lyon Metro Line B
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1205937
Topic's main category
Category:Dire Dawa
Treccani ID
diredaua
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
diredaua
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10038325
UN/LOCODE
ETDIR
Who's on First ID
85671159
Yale LUX ID
place/c836a85e-4ba8-4bb5-a730-59788d4378a0

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🔗 Connections
People born here 9
Ismail Omar Guelleh, Youssouf Hersi, Fuad Ibrahim, Luciano Violante, Atsede Baysa, Ali Birra, Maji-da Abdi, Beneyam Demte +1 more
Contained subdivisions 3
Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, Dire Dawa Stadium, Dire Dawa University
Instance of 3
city, region of Ethiopia, big city
Language used 2
Somali, Harari
People who died here 2
Liduina Meneguzzi, Mohammed Rashad Abdulle
Shares border with 2
Oromia Region, Somali Region
← Indigenous to 2
Somali, Harari
← Shares border with 2
Oromia Region, Somali Region
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Dire Dawa
Country 1
Ethiopia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Ethiopia
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:00
Preceded by (successor) 1
Hararghe
SNARC ID 1
Lyon Metro Line B
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dire Dawa
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Dire Dawa
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dire Dawa
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Ethiopia
← Headquarters location 1
Cotton Factory Club
← Place served by transport hub 1
Aba Tenna Dejazmach Yilma International Airport
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city Dire Dawa University Ethiopia Ismail Omar Guelleh

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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