Dessie (also spelle Dese or Dessye) is a city and a woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located on the paved Addis Ababa - Asmara highway in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this city has a latitude and longitude of 11°8′N, 39°38′E with an elevation between 2470 and 2550 meters above sea level.