Dihun

Dihun is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Fiq Zone, Dihun is bordered on the south by the Gode Zone, on the west by the Shebelle River which separates it from the Oromia Region, on the northwest by Hamero, on the northeast by Segeg, and on the east by the Degehabur Zone. The major town in Dihun is Geresley.

The average elevation in this woreda is 859 meters above sea level.^[1] As of 2008^[update], Dihun has neither all-weather gravel roads nor community roads; about 9.11% of the total population has access to drinking water.^[2]

Demographics

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 34,772, of whom 15,964 were men and 18,808 were women; 1,715 or 4.93% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 11.6%. Information is not available on the area of Dihun, so its population density cannot be calculated.^[3] This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Darod clan of the Somali people.

The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 28,259, of whom 15,572 were men and 12,687 were women; 1,148 or 4.06% of its population were urban dwellers. (This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of 8 rural kebeles, which were not counted; they were estimated to have 8,135 inhabitants, of whom 4,484 were men and 3,651 women.) The largest ethnic group reported in Dihun was the Somali (99.84%).^[4]

Notes

1. ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (accessed 23 March 2009)
2. ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey, Annexes 16, 17
3. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4. Rural population numbers are believed to be underreported for this Region.
4. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.13 (accessed 12 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.

Coordinates: 7°15′N 42°35′E / 7.25°N 42.583°E / 7.25; 42.583