Addis Abeba Map, Ethiopia

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Addis Abeba Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Addis Abeba with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Addis Abeba useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Addis Abeba!

Addis Abeba History

It was the interest of Menelik’s wife Taytu who started to work on a Church that was located on the foot of Mount Entoto. Even Menelik found this place very useful for his military operations and both these reasons were enough for him to lay down the foundation for the city of Addis Abeba. As the supply of water and firewood was available on the southern part of the mountain, he first started to settle down there... read more

Addis Abeba Travel Guide

The city was built in 1886, before this time it was constantly moving its place, and now has a population of about four million people. The city was founded at the foot of Mount Entoto. This city has had a very difficult history, with events such as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. When the Italian Army was defeated after occupying Addis Ababa from 1936-1941, there were a million Ethiopians dead from mustard gas. read more