Forto () (
Tigrinya Tigrinya may refer to:
* Tigrinya language
Tigrinya, sometimes romanized as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic languages, Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic languages, Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It i ...
: ፎርቶ ሳዋ)is a town in
Eritrea
Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...
. It is located in the
Gash-Barka region
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and is the capital of
Forto District.
References
Statoids.com retrieved December 8, 2010
Populated places in Eritrea
Gash-Barka region
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