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Omo River
Omo River is in Ethiopia, in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region. This sheet answers with open data: what the place is, where it sits at GPS precision and which notable attractions lie a few kilometers away.
Data sheet
| What it is | UNESCO World Heritage Site |
|---|---|
| Country | Ethiopia |
| City or region | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region |
| Coordinates | 8.2563 N, 37.4899 E |
| UNESCO World Heritage | Yes (site or site component) |
| Notability (sitelinks) | 59 |
The 5 closest notable attractions
| Attraction | Country | Distance (km) |
|---|---|---|
| Bale Mountains National Park | Ethiopia | 300.2 |
| Monolithic churches in Lalibela | Ethiopia | 452.6 |
| Fasil Ghebbi | Ethiopia | 483.9 |
| Simien Mountains National Park | Ethiopia | 551.5 |
| Lake Turkana National Parks | Kenya | 589.0 |
The closest neighbor is Bale Mountains National Park, 300.2 km away in a straight line. The table above answers the question every itinerary starts with: what else is nearby?
The name in 3 languages
| Português | Rio Omo |
|---|---|
| English | Omo River |
| Español | Valle bajo del Omo |
How we compute it: distances are straight line (haversine formula) over the coordinates recorded on Wikidata, across the 2,000 attractions in our snapshot. It is not a walking or driving route: it is the pure geographic ruler, useful to gauge what can be combined in a single day. Sitelinks measure how many Wikimedia project editions have a page about the place. The World Heritage mark comes from designation P1435 and can point to the inscribed site or to one of its components.
Source: Wikidata (CC0), snapshot of 2026-07-09. Public domain data, queried via SPARQL at query.wikidata.org.
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