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Dire Dawa

#517 in World

Ethiopia

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Population
440K
Coordinates
9.5931, 41.8661
Category
cities

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Dire Dawa is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Oromia Region and Oromo border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia. Dire Dawa alongside present-day Sitti Zone were a part of the Dire Dawa autonomous region of the Somali Region stipulated in the 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the federal government into a separately administered chartered city.

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