Axum
Axum is a city of 56,000 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, just south of Eritrea, with which it shares the language of Tigrinya. Ezana's great steleIt was for nearly 800 years the administrative centre of one of the great empires of the old world along with those of Rome, Persia and China and remains the ecclesiastical capital of the Ethiopian church.Axum
- Type: Town with 51,800 residents
- Description: Ethiopian city
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.1221° or 14° 7' 20" northLongitude
38.7322° or 38° 43' 56" eastPopulation
51,800Elevation
2,131 metres (6,991 feet)IATA airport code
AXUUnited Nations Location Code
ET AXUOpen Location Code
7G6W4PCJ+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 298296175OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
344420Wikidata ID
Q5832Axum Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Aksum
- Amharic: አክሱም
- Arabic: Axum
- Arabic: أكسوم
- Armenian: Աքսում (քաղաք)
- Armenian: Աքսում
- Asturian: Aksum (ciudá)
- Asturian: Aksum
- Avaric: Aksum
- Azerbaijani: Aksum
- Basque: Aksum
- Basque: Axum
- Belarusian: Аксум
- Bengali: আকসুম
- Breton: Aksoum
- Bulgarian: Аксум
- Burmese: အက်ဆမ်မြို့
- Catalan: Axum
- Cebuano: Āksum
- Chinese: 阿克蘇姆
- Croatian: Aksum
- Czech: Aksúm
- Danish: Axum
- Dutch: Aksum
- Egyptian Arabic: اكسوم
- English: Aksum
- English: ኣኽሱም?
- Esperanto: Aksumo
- Estonian: Aksum
- Finnish: Aksum
- French: Aksoum
- French: Axoum
- Galician: Axum
- Georgian: აქსუმი
- German: Aksum
- German: Axum
- German: Weltkulturerbe Axum
- Greek: Αξούμ
- Greek: Αξώμη
- Gujarati: એક્સમ
- Hebrew: אקסום
- Hindi: अक्सुम
- Hungarian: Akszúm
- Inari Sami: Aksum
- Indonesian: Aksum
- Italian: Aksum
- Italian: Axum
- Italian: regno di Axum
- Japanese: アクスム
- Kannada: ಅಕ್ಸುಮ್
- Kannada: ಆಕ್ಸಮ್
- Korean: 악숨
- Kotava: Aksum
- Latvian: Aksuma
- Lithuanian: Aksumas
- Maithili: अक्सुम
- Malay: Axum
- Malayalam: അക്സം
- Malayalam: അക്സൂം
- Maltese: Aksum
- Maltese: Axum
- Marathi: अक्सम
- Mingrelian: აქსუმი
- Nepali: अक्सुम
- Norwegian: Aksum
- Norwegian Bokmål: Aksum
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Aksum
- Occitan (post 1500): Axom
- Persian: اکسوم
- Polish: Aksum
- Portuguese: Aksum
- Portuguese: Axum
- Romanian: Axum
- Russian: Аксум
- Scots: Axum
- Serbian: Аксум
- Serbo-Croatian: Aksum
- Sinhala: අක්සුම්
- Skolt Sami: Aksumm
- Slovak: Aksum
- Slovenian: Aksum
- South Azerbaijani: اکسوم
- Spanish: Aksum
- Spanish: Axum
- Swahili: Axum
- Swedish: Aksum
- Tamil: அக்ஸும்
- Telugu: అఖ్సుమ్
- Thai: อักซุม
- Turkish: Aksum
- Ukrainian: Аксум
- Urdu: اکسوم
- Venetian: Axum
- Vietnamese: Aksum
- Waray (Philippines): Aksum
- Welsh: Axum
- Western Frisian: Aksum
- Wu Chinese: 阿克苏姆
- Yue Chinese: 阿克蘇姆
- Zulu: Axum, Itiyopiya
- Akesum
Other Places Named Axum
In the Area
Axum is situated close to the village Gebre Tela and the locality Addi Khankera.
- AtsiuoVillage, 6 km east
- May KaoLocality, 6 km south
- GodraVillage, 6 km northwest
- GodaLocality, 7 km northwest
- Addi KedauitVillage, 8 km east
- Adi Asatiya Giyorgis Bete KristiyanLocality, 8 km east
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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 Axum. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.