Talk:West Shewa Zone

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Debub Mirab Shewa

Debub Mirab Shewa is a redirect to this page. However, it appears that this is a new and separate Zone, with a population at the 2007 census of 1,111,442 and consisting of the following weredas:-

Ameya
Becho
Dawo
Goro
Ilu
Kersa Ena Malima
Sebeta Hawas
Sebeta Town
Seden Sodo
Sodo Dacha
Tole
Woliso
Woliso Town
Wonchi

Unfortunately, I am unable to access the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia's website at present, and am therefore unable to confirm the information. GeoHive, which tends to be pretty accurate, does confirm this (see GeoHive : Ethiopia : Oromia : Administrative Units).

GeoHive gives Mirab Shewa itself as having a population of 2,072,485 and consisting of the following weredas:-

Abuna Gindeberet
Ada Berga
Ambo Town
Ambo Zuria
Bako Tibe
Cheliya
Dano
Dendi
Ejere
Elfata
Ginde Beret
Holeta Town
Jeldu
Jibat
Meta Robi
Midakegn
Nono
Tikur Enchini
Toke Kutayu
Wolmera

GeoHive sourced the information to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia, and specifically the 2007 census report. Skinsmoke (talk) 14:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The CSA website can be difficult to access at times -- as can every URL in the .et subdomain. (I don't know if it's due to network problems, or that they have insufficient bandwidth to handle the demand on their servers. But the website is very useful, unlike a lot of other Ethiopian websites.) The GeoHive information appears to be drawn from the summary of the latest national census. The reasons I haven't updated most of these geographical articles is that (1) I'd like to be able to say when these reorganizations took place -- so far, I've been compiling a table of the various mentions & making my inferences from that; & (2) finding accurate, up-to-date information on how Ethiopia is organized into Zones & woredas is difficult, even for people with access to the Ethiopian government records -- from what I've read, I gather that even the local officials don't have a comprehensive understanding of it for their own areas; (3) I've been procrastinating over this -- I figure that there are about a hundred new woredas & Zones, some of which appear & vanish like blobs in a Lava lamp. (And then there is the matter that I've got a number of other Ethiopia-related topics to work on, so if something looks like too much work I'm easily tempted to move on to another area.) If someone else would like to take this challenge on, I'd not only be happy to let them -- but also help them with it. -- llywrch (talk) 22:13, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]