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The Tigray Region [A] (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) [B] is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely ...
The Tigrayan people (Tigrinya: ተጋሩ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] They speak the Tigrinya language , an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Ethiopian Semitic branch.
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).
Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this district has a total population of 135,870, an increase of 55.04% over the 1994 census, of whom 67,687 are men and 68,183 women; 16,056 or 11.82% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 2,132.83 square kilometers, Raya Azebo has a population ...
The poor harvest prompted Tigray’s authorities to warn of an “unfolding famine” that could match the famine of 1984-5, which killed hundreds of thousands of people across northern Ethiopia ...
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this Zone of 873,509 people in 210,858 households, of whom 425,655 were men and 447,854 women; 207,352 or 23.7% of its population were urban dwellers. The Zone is predominantly Tigrayan, at 92.1% of the population, while 5.4% were Amhara, 1.5% were Agaw, and all other ethnic groups 1.0%.
Trapped in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region, beyond the reach of aid, people “are falling like leaves,” the official said. The letter dated June ...