Asmara
The Eritrean capital of Asmara is a vibrant mix of Italian and African architecture and culture. It is by far the biggest and most important city of Eritrea and not just the administration center of the country but also the cultural center and the place where every tourist will arrive to the country.Photo: charlesfred, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Fiat Tagliero
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fiat Tagliero Building is a Futurist-style service station in Asmara, Eritrea.
Cinema Impero
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cinema Impero is an Art Deco-style cinema in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.
Nation Museum of Eritrea
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Eritrea is a national museum in Asmara, Eritrea.
Asmara
- Type: City with 579,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Eritrea
- Categories: capital city, big city and locality
- Location: South Western Subregion, Maekel Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.339° or 15° 20' 20" northLongitude
38.9327° or 38° 55' 58" eastPopulation
579,000Elevation
2,334 metres (7,657 feet)IATA airport code
ASMUnited Nations Location Code
ER ASMOpen Location Code
7G7W8WQM+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5621920820OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
343300Wikidata ID
Q3642Asmara Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Asmara
- Adyghe: Асмэра
- Afrikaans: Asmara
- Akan: Asmara
- Albanian: Asmara
- Amharic: አስመራ
- Arabic: Asmara
- Arabic: أسمرة
- Aragonese: Asmara
- Armenian: Ասմարա
- Arpitan: Asmara
- Asturian: Asmara
- Avaric: Asmara
- Azerbaijani: Əsməra
- Balinese: Asmara, Éritréa
- Basque: Asmara
- Bavarian: Asmara
- Belarusian: Асмара
- Belarusian: Асмэра
- Bengali: আসমারা
- Bosnian: Asmara
- Breton: Asmara
- Bulgarian: Асмара
- Catalan: Asmara
- Cebuano: Asmara
- Central Bikol: Asmara
- Central Kurdish: ئاسمارا
- Central Kurdish: ئەسمەرە
- Chechen: Асмэра
- Chinese: Asmara
- Chinese: 阿斯馬拉
- Chinese: 阿斯马拉
- Church Slavic: Асмєра
- Chuvash: Асмэра
- Cornish: Asmara
- Corsican: Asmara
- Croatian: Asmera
- Czech: Asmara
- Danish: Asmara
- Dimli (individual language): Asmara
- Dutch: Asmara
- Egyptian Arabic: اسمره
- English: Asmera
- Esperanto: Asmaro
- Esperanto: Asmero
- Estonian: Asmara
- Extremaduran: Asmara
- Fiji Hindi: Asmara
- Finnish: Asmara
- French: Asmara
- French: Asmera
- Friulian: Asmara
- Galician: Asmara
- Georgian: ასმერა
- German: Asmara
- Greek: Ασμάρα
- Gujarati: અસ્મારા
- Haitian: Asmara
- Hakka Chinese: Asmara
- Hausa: Asmara
- Hebrew: אסמרה
- Hindi: अस्मारा
- Hungarian: Aszmara
- Icelandic: Asmara
- Ido: Asmara
- Inari Sami: Asmara
- Indonesian: Asmara
- Interlingua: Asmara
- Interlingue: Asmara
- Irish: Asmara
- Italian: Asmara
- Italian: Asmera
- Italian: L'Asmara
- Japanese: アスマラ
- Javanese: Asmara
- Kabiyè: Asɩmara
- Kabyle: Asmara
- Kannada: ಅಸ್ಮಾರಾ
- Kazakh: Асмэра
- Kinyarwanda: Asmara
- Kirghiz: Асмара
- Kongo: Asmara
- Korean: 아스마라
- Kotava: Asmara
- Kurdish: Asmara
- Latin: Asmara
- Latvian: Asmera
- Ligurian: Asmara
- Limburgan: Asmara
- Lingua Franca Nova: Asmara
- Lithuanian: Asmara
- Livvi: Asmera
- Lombard: Asmara
- Low German: Asmara
- Luxembourgish: Asmara
- Macedo-Romanian: Asmara
- Macedonian: Асмара
- Malagasy: Asmara
- Malay: Asmara, Eritrea
- Malay: Asmara
- Malayalam: അസ്മാറ
- Maltese: Asmara
- Marathi: अस्मारा
- Mazanderani: اسمره
- Min Dong Chinese: Asmara
- Min Nan Chinese: Asmara
- Minangkabau: Asmara
- Mingrelian: ასმერა
- Moksha: Асмара
- Mongolian: Асмара
- Moroccan Arabic: أسمارا
- Narom: Asmara
- Neapolitan: Asmara
- Northern Frisian: Asmara
- Norwegian: Asmara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Asmara
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Asmara
- Novial: Asmara
- Occitan (post 1500): Asmara
- Ossetian: Асмэрæ
- Panjabi: ਅਸਮਾਰਾ
- Papiamento: Asmara
- Persian: اسمره
- Picard: Asmara
- Piemontese: Asmara
- Polish: Asmara
- Portuguese: Asmara
- Pushto: اسمره
- Quechua: Asmara
- Romanian: Asmara
- Romansh: Asmara
- Russian: Асмэра
- Santali: ᱟᱥᱢᱟᱨᱟ
- Sardinian: Asmara
- Scots: Asmara
- Scottish Gaelic: Asmara
- Serbian: Asmara
- Serbian: Асмара
- Serbo-Croatian: Asmara
- Shona: Asmara
- Sicilian: Asmara
- Silesian: Asmara
- Sinhala: අස්මාරා
- Slovak: Asmara
- Slovenian: Asmara
- Somali: Asmara
- South Azerbaijani: اسمره
- Spanish: Asmara
- Swahili: Asmara
- Swedish: Asmara
- Swiss German: Asmara
- Tagalog: Asmara
- Tajik: Асмэра
- Tamil: அஸ்மாரா
- Telugu: అస్మారా
- Thai: แอสมารา
- Tibetan: ཨཱ་སི་མི་ར།
- Tigrinya: Asmera
- Tigrinya: ኣስመራ
- Turkish: Asmara
- Turkmen: Asmera
- Udmurt: Асмэра
- Ukrainian: Асмара
- Ukrainian: Асмера
- Upper Sorbian: Asmara
- Upper Sorbian: Asmera
- Urdu: اسمارا
- Uzbek: Asmera
- Venetian: Asmara
- Veps: Asmar
- Vietnamese: Asmara
- Vlaams: Asmara
- Volapük: Asmara
- Võro: Asmara
- Walloon: Asmara
- Waray (Philippines): Asmara
- Welsh: Asmara
- Western Frisian: Asmara
- Western Mari: Асмэра
- Western Panjabi: اسمارا
- Wolof: Asmara
- Wu Chinese: 阿斯马拉
- Yoruba: Asmara
- Yue Chinese: 阿斯馬拉
- Zulu: Asmara
Other Places Named Asmara
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Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Asmara. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.