Mayumuluka

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Mayumuluka is one of the woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Fiq Zone, Mayumuluka is bordered on the south by Lagahida, on the west and north by the Oromia Region, on the northeast by the Jijiga Zone, and on the east by the Erer which separates it from Fiq.

Districts, or woreda, are the third-level administrative divisions of Ethiopia. They are further subdivided into a number of wards (kebele) or neighbourhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia.

The Somali Regional State, officially known as the Somali West, is the largest and easternmost of the nine regions (kilimo) of Ethiopia. The state borders the Ethiopian states of Afar and Oromia and the chartered city Dire Dawa to the west, as well as Djibouti to the north; Somalia to the north, east, and south; and Kenya to the southwest.

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, the de facto state of 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.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 99,907, of whom 62,107 are men and 37,805 women. While 4,157 or 34.91% are urban inhabitants, a further 5,392 or 45.28% are pastoralists. 99.21% of the population said they were Muslim. ^[1]

Islam was in 2007 the second largest religion in Ethiopia with over 33.9% of the population. The faith arrived in Ethiopia at an early date, shortly before the hijira.

Notes

↑ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived November 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.

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[1] Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived November 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.