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Dihun is a woreda in Somali Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Nogob Zone, Dihun is bordered on the south by the Gode Zone, on the west by the Shebelle River which separates it from Salahad, on the northwest by Hamero, on the northeast by Segeg, and on the east by Gerbo. The major town in Dihun is Geresley.

The average elevation in this woreda is around 859 meters above sea level. [1] As of 2008, Dihun has neither all-weather gravel roads nor community roads; around 9.11% of the total population has access to drinking water. [2]

Demographics

The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 28,259, of whom 15,572 were men and 12,687 were women; 1,148 or 4.06% of its population were urban dwellers. (This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of 8 rural kebeles, which were not counted; they were estimated to have 8,135 inhabitants, of whom 4,484 were men and 3,651 women.) The largest ethnic group reported in Dihun was the Somali (99.84%). [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (accessed 23 March 2009)
  2. ↑ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey, Annexes 16, 17
  3. ↑ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived November 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.
  4. ↑ "Draft:Maxamed subeer (Mohamed Zubeir)", Wikipedia, 2021-10-09, retrieved 2021-10-09
  5. ↑ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.13 (accessed 12 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.

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