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Prior to the 1995 Constitution, Ethiopia was divided into provinces, and those were further subdivided into awrajjas, then into woredas and then sub-woredas. Boundaries were sometimes redrawn and the number of provinces varied across time. [a] Awrajja were subdivisions of provinces, and were the rough equivalent of the current term zones. After ...
Area (km 2) [9] Capital Map Addis Ababa (city) 5,704,000 527 Addis Ababa: Afar Region: ... Subdivisions of Ethiopia; List of Ethiopian regional states by population;
The exact number of zones is unclear, as the names and number of zones given in documents by Ethiopia's Central Statistical Agency differ between 2005 [1] and 2007. [2] Various maps give different zone names and boundaries. Zones are a 2nd level subdivision of Ethiopia, below regions and above woredas, or districts. The zones are listed below ...
The following table presents a list of Ethiopian regional states by population based on the 1994 and 2007 censuses with the Statistics Ethiopia estimated population as of July 2023. Region 1994 Census [ 1 ]
Former subdivisions of Ethiopia (2 C, 3 P) * Lists of subdivisions of Ethiopia (1 C, 3 P) D. Districts of Ethiopia (17 C, 2 P) R. Regions of Ethiopia (16 C, 20 P) Z.
Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (Amharic: ወረዳ; Oromo: Aanaa [1] woreda), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after zones and the regional states. These districts are further subdivided into a number of wards called kebele neighbourhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government ...
English: Clickable map of the regions and zones of Ethiopia. Originally based on boundaries used in UNOCHA 27 March 2013 map (new URL, archive link).. Updated on 6 November 2017 to reflect Afar Zone 1 change in UNOCHA 5 January 2015 Map (new URL, archive link) (border now diverts around Kurri woreda instead of cuts across).
[4]: 334 With the exception of Arsi (whose name derives from the eponymous Oromo subgroup, and which initially included majority-Gurage area later transferred to Shewa province (becoming Southern Shewa), all of the provinces were deliberately drawn to include multiple "tribes" (or ethnicities) so as to better facilitate national cohesion.