This page presents the geographical name data for Asmara in Eritrea, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name (see definition): Asmara
Non-Roman Name: ኣሥመራ
Primary Country Code (see definition): ER (Eritrea)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 05 (Maʼākel )
Region Font Code (see definition): 3 (Africa/Middle East)
Unique Feature Identifier (see definition): -604780
Unique Name Identifier (see definition): 71322
Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 15.333333
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 38.933333
Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 15° 20' 00" N
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 38° 56' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 37PDS9284495196
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): ND37-02
Feature Classification (see definition): P (Populated place type feature)
Feature Designation Code (see definition): PPLC (capital of a political entity)
Populated Place Classification (see definition): No data
Second-order administrative division code (see definition): No data
Population Figures (see definition): No data
Elevations (see definition): No data
Secondary Country Code (see definition): No data
Name Type (see definition): C (Conventional name)
Language Code (see definition): eng (English)
Substitute for full name (see definition): No data
Descriptive part of the full name (see definition): No data
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): ASMARA
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Asmara
Modify Date (see definition): 2007-03-07