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Dire Dawa is a chartered city in Ethiopia that operates under special administrative status. As one of Ethiopia's major urban centers, it serves as an important commercial and transportation hub for the country.
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- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Diridhabe
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Located in
- Ethiopia
- Population
- 277000
- Area
- 1213
- Elevation
- 1276
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Oromia Region
- Image
- MosqueDireDawa.JPG
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- native label
- Diridhabe
- language used
- Harari
- Commons category
- Dire Dawa
- topic's main category
- Category:Dire Dawa
- category for people born here
- Q13335638
- inception
- 1902-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dire Dawa
- P12749
- Lyon Metro Line B
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Encyclopedic overview
Dire Dawa (Oromo: Dirree Dhawaa, lit. 'Place of Remedy'; Somali: Diridhaba, meaning "where the Dir hit his spear into the ground" or "The true Dir", Amharic: ድሬዳዋ, Harari: ዲርሬዳዋ, lit. "Plain of Medicine") is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Oromia Region and Oromo border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia (the other being Addis Ababa, the capital). 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.
It is divided administratively into two woredas, the city proper and the non-urban woredas of Gurgura.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dire Dawa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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