Where is Addis Ababa?

The community of Addis Ababa is the main city of Ethiopia, a place situated in the north eastern section of the continent of Africa. The city has a population of nearby to 3 and a half million folks and is located in the geographic centre of Ethiopia, of which, as already mentioned, it is the capital.

The city of Addis Ababa is situated at an altitude of 2300 meters or in other words, 7546 feet. The exact coordinates of the city are 9 degrees 1 minute 48 seconds North and 38 degrees 44 minutes 24 seconds east. Addis Ababa is positioned at the foot of Mount Entoto, the highest point of the city and is known to as the ‘lung of Addis Ababa’.

Addis Ababa is also a chartered city and therefore features the status of each a state as well as a city. The African Union and its predecessor, the Organization of African Oneness, are both headquartered and primarily based in Addis Ababa. The lowest point of the city of Addis Ababa is also home to the Bole International Airport, the busiest airport in Eastern Africa as well as the hub for Ethiopian Airlines. The international airport is attached via routine and each day flights to United States, Asia and Europe as well as several other major African cities such as Johannesburg, Khartoum, Dar es Salaam, Dakar, Brazzaville, Cairo, Accra, Nairobi, Harare, Djibouti and Bamako. Credited to its superior connectivity with many other important regions and the different historical, political and diplomatic benefits of the city, Addis Ababa is commonly viewed as the ‘political capital of Africa’.

With its high human population, Addis Ababa is consequently not exclusively the political capital but in addition, the social and economic nerve middle of the nation of Ethiopia as well. The capital city covers an space of well above 21,000 hectares and as already mentioned, is centrally located in the foothills of the tall Entoto Mountain chain. Addis Ababa continues pleasantly over and across a number of woody in addition to forested hill sides and mountain sides as well as numerous gullies which are cut through due to many fast flowing streams and rivers.

Though its locale in Africa may suggest otherwise, Addis Ababa is as contemporary and as cosmopolitan as just about any other metropolis city based anywhere else in the globe such as the more developed Europe, North America or eastern Asia. Addis Ababa is a city of varied and diverse architectural mastery, high rising office buildings and towers, elegantly made villas and gardens, vast bungalows, stylish and sophisticated hotels as well as many theatres and meeting places. Addis Ababa is also a city of conventional residences of daub and wattle which are surrounded by goats, sheep, cattle, chicken and various other livestock. Though the city lacks a specific ‘city centre’ since up until very recently Addis Ababa lacked a definite urban planning system, the organic, natural and simple way in which the city of Addis Ababa has developed and assumed its current pleasurable appearance is a reflection of its pure unstructured and unforced evolution.