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Adet (Amharic: አዴት), also known as Adet Medhanialem is a town in northwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Bahir Dar in the Mirab Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region (or kilil), this town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 2,216 meters above sea level. It is the largest settlement in Yilmana Densa woreda. Adet, Gojjam, Ethiopia

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Place details

Locality
አዴት / Adet
Region
አማራ ክልል Amhara أمحرة
Country
ኢትዮጵያ
Population
43,200
Timezone
Africa/Addis_Ababa

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Adet
Settlement.pushpin_map
Ethiopia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Ethiopia
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Ethiopia
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Amhara Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Zone
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Mirab Gojjam Zone
Settlement.population_as_of
2005
Settlement.population_total
21,117 (est)
Settlement.elevation_m
2216

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
city
Country
Ethiopia
Population
21117
Elevation
2216
Capital of
Yilmana Densa
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Demographics
  • Notes

Adet (Amharic: አዴት), also known as Adet Medhanialem is a town in northwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Bahir Dar in the Mirab Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region (or kilil), this town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 2,216 meters above sea level. It is the largest settlement in Yilmana Densa woreda. Adet, Gojjam, Ethiopia

==History== Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary school in Adet in 1968. In January 1985, proposals were invited for the construction of an agricultural research station at Adet.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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