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Arsi Robe is a town in south-eastern Ethiopia. It is named after the nearby Robe River. It is the administrative centre of the Robe woreda in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 09°36′N39°08′E / 9.600°N 39.133°E / 9.600; 39.133 Coordinates: 09°36′N39°08′E / 9.600°N 39.133°E / 9.600; 39.133 with an elevation of 2435 meters above sea level.

Ethiopia country in East Africa

Ethiopia, Oromo: Itiyoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Hebrew: אתיופיה -officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country in the northeastern part of Africa, popularly known as the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. 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 that covers 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 Plate and the Somali Plate.

Robe is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Robe River, 80 kilometers of which flows through the woreda. Part of the Arsi Zone, Robe is bordered on the south by the Shebelle River which separates it from the Bale Zone, on the southwest by Sherka, on the west by Tena, on the north by Sude, on the northeast by Amigna, and on the east by Seru. The administrative center of the woreda is Robe; other towns in Robe include Habe and Sedika.

Arsi Zone zone of Ethiopia

Arsi is one of the zones of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia. Arsi is also the name of a former province. Both the Zone and the former province are named after a subgroup of the Oromo, who inhabit both.

According to the Oromia Regional government, this town currently has telephone and postal service, and is supplied with electricity for 24 hours from Melka Wakena Hydroelectric Power. [1] A market is held on Saturdays. A notable local landmark is the prison farm, which existed as early as 1961, and in the 1980s housed 850 prisoners. [2]

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Robe has an estimated total population of 17,144 of whom 8,200 are men and 8,944 are women. [3] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 9,599 of whom 4,447 were men and 5,152 were women.

Notes

  1. ↑ Socio-economic profile of Arsi Zone, Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 19 January 2008)
  2. ↑ "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived 2011-05-28 at the Wayback Machine . The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 January 2008)
  3. ↑ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4


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