Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa "new flower," is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union and its predecessor, the OAU. It is also the largest city in Ethiopia. With a population of 3,627,934 as of 2007, Addis Ababa is the world's largest city in a landlocked country and the main tourist attraction in Ethiopia. As a chartered city (ras gez astedader), Addis Ababa has the status of both a city and a state.

Ambo

Ambo (also known as Hagere Hiwot) is a spa town in central Ethiopia. Its Located in the Mirab Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, west of Addis Ababa, this town has a latitude and longitude of 8°59', 37°51' and an elevation of 2101 meters. 

Arba Minch

Arba Minch received its name for the abundant local springs which produce a groundwater forest. it hosts the annual 'Festival of 1000 Stars', a concert organized by British charitable organisation One Heart and Gughe Indigenous Art & Music Association, dedicated to helping the region's indigenous people support themselves through music. The next occurrence is due in December 2008. 

Awasa

Awasa (also spelled Awassa) is a city in Ethiopia, on the shores of Lake Awasa in the Great Rift Valley. Located in the Sidama Zone, as of 2006 Awasa is the capital of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region.

Awash

Awash is a market town in central Ethiopia. Located in Administrative Zone 3 of the Afar Region, above a gorge on the Awash River, after which the town is named, the town lies on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway, which crosses the gorge by a bridge there. 

Axum

Although its very early history is still unknown, Ethiopian legends first recorded in the fourteenth-century Kebre Nagast (Book of Kings) make Axum the capital of the Queen of Sheba in the tenth century BC. Rising to importance around the time of the of Christ, Axum was the capital far-reaching Axumite kingdom.

Bahir Dar

Dessie

Dessie (also spelled Dese or Dessye) is a city and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located on the paved Addis Ababa - Asmara highway in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this city has a latitude and longitude of  11°8'N 39°38'E / 11.133, 39.633 with an elevation between 2470 and 2550 meters above sea level. 

Gambela

Gambela is a city in Ethiopia and the capital of the Gambela Region or kilil. Located in Administrative Zone 1, at the confluence of the Baro River and its tributary the Jajjaba, the city has a latitude and longitude of [show location on an interactive map] 8°15'N 34°35'E / 8.25, 34.583 and an elevation of 526 meters. 

Goba

The town is known for its Wednesday market and for honey, basketry and cotton shawl making; Bale National Park is 10 km to the southwest. A few kilometers outside of Goba are the remains of an old rock church.  

Gondar

They say “you have only to stroll through the banqueting halls and gaze down from the balconies of the many castles and palaces here to imagine the intrigue and pageantry that took place back in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Gondar, then the Ethiopian capital, was home to a number of emperors and warlords, courtiers and kings”.  

Harar

Harar is a walled city which stands on the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley. Harar was a fiercely religious city and was a forbidden city (closed to visitors), until 1887 when Menelik restored central rule. With its 999 mosques, including the 16th century Grand Mosque with is beautiful twin towers and slender minaret.

Hossana

Hosaena (also spelled Hosaina or Hosa'ina; an older name is Wachamo) is a town in central Ethiopia, and the capital of the Hadiya Zone. Located in the Limo woreda or the Hadiya Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR).

Jimma

Jimma is the largest city in southwestern Ethiopia. Located in the Jimma Zone of the Oromia Region, this city has a latitude and longitude of [show location on an interactive map] 7°40'N 36°50'E / 7.667, 36.833. It was the capital of Kaffa Province until the province was dissolved. 

Jinka  

Lalibela

They say it's the 8th wonder of the world. Once the thriving and populous capital city of medieval dynasty, Lalibela, is indeed the 8th wonder with its 13 rock-hewn churches cut out of a solid red volcanic rock. Some of the churches lie almost completely hidden in deep trenches, while others stand in open quarried caves.

Wondo Genet

Wondo Genet (also transliterated Wendo Genet) is a resort town and a famous Ethiopia tourist attraction. Located southeast of Shashemene in the Sidama Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region..

Yabello

Also called Negele Boran (or Neghelle) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in the Guji Zone of the Oromia Region on the road connecting Addis Ababa to Dolo Odo, it has an altitude of about 1475 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Liben woreda.

Jijiga

Jijiga is a city in eastern Ethiopia and the capital of the Somali Region (or kilil) of that country. Located in the Jijiga Zone approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of Harar and 60 km (37 mi) west of the border with the Republic of Somaliland (northern Somalia).

Semine Park

The simien mountain massif is one of the major highlands of Africa, rising to the highest point in Ethiopia, Ras Dejen (4620m), which is the fourth highest peak in the continent. Although in Africa and not too far from the equator, snow and ice appear on the highest points and night temperatures often fall below zero.

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