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Āsasa
Oromiya, Ethiopia · Africa
About Āsasa
Āsasa sits on the route: 25 minutes from Dodola.
Āsasa is in Oromiya, Ethiopia, with about 43,000 people. The nearest town is Dodola, about 13 km away.
Asasa is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the West Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 07°06′N 39°12′E with an elevation of 2367 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Gedeb Asasa woreda.
Asasa was the location of the Kulumsa experimental farm, aRead more
project of Chilalo Agricultural Development Union that ran from 1966 to 1968. In the late 1989s, a Skills Training Center operated in this town, teaching useful trades like pot-making.
Based on figures from the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Asasa has an estimated total population of 19,506 of whom 9,865 are men and 9,641 are women. The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 10,903 of whom 5,350 were men and 5,553 women.
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Āsasa is in Oromiya, Ethiopia, about 13 km from Dodola.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 42,900
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Region
- Oromiya
- Timezone
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
- Coordinates
- 7.1000, 39.2000
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- 77 kmMount Tullu DimtuAt 4,385 m the highest peak in southern Ethiopia, reached by a rough gravel road said to be the third highest in Africa. It crosses the Sanetti Plateau, the largest Afroalpine moorland on the continent and stronghold of the Ethiopian wolf.
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