Diche Oto

Diche Oto
Diche Oto
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Afar Region
Zone	Administrative Zone 1
Population (2005)
• Total	1,998 (est)

Last updated July 25, 2019

Diche Oto is a town in north-eastern Ethiopia, located in Administrative Zone 1 of the Afar Region. During the Italian occupation, the settlement was known as Diciotto, Italian for "eighteen".^[1]

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country in the northeastern part of Africa, known as the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somaliland and Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest. With over 102 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent with a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi). Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa, which lies a few miles west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the Nubian and Somali tectonic plates.

The Afar Regional State is one of the nine regional states (kililoch) of Ethiopia, and is the homeland of the Afar people. Formerly known as Region 2, its new capital as of 2007 is the recently constructed city of Semera, which lies on the paved Awash–Assab highway.

Italian East Africa was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire which became Italian Ethiopia.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, the town had an estimated total population of 1,998 of whom 1,131 were males and 867 were females.^[2] It is one of four towns in Elidar woreda.

Elidar is one of the woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 1, Elidar is bordered on the south by the Awash River which separates it from Asayita, on the west by Dubti, on the northwest by Kori, on the north by the Administrative Zone 2, on the northeast by Eritrea, and on the east by Djibouti. Towns in Elidar include Bure, Diche Oto, Elidar and Manda.

Philip Briggs has described Diche Oto as "a rather odd settlement of brightly painted corrugated iron buildings with large balconies. As the last Ethiopian town before the Djibouti border, it is a popular stopover with truck drivers, and has consequently acquired an unexpectedly shifty, seedy atmosphere."^[3]

Djibouti is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Djibouti occupies a total area of 23,200 km² (8,958 sq mi). The state of Djibouti is predominantly inhabited by two ethnic groups, the Somali and the Afar people, the Somalis being the major ethnic group of the country.

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References

↑ Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 15 February 2008)
↑ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine , Table B.4
↑ Philip Briggs, Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 349

Coordinates: 11°54′09″N41°35′03″E / 11.9025°N 41.5843°E / 11.9025; 41.5843

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[1] Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 15 February 2008)

[2] CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine , Table B.4

[3] Philip Briggs, Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 349