Geladin ( ) is a town in
eastern Ethiopia
.
Located in
the Werder Zone of the Somali Region
, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an
elevation between 427 and 530 meters above sea level.
Arthur Donaldson Smith
records he visited Geladin (which he also calls "Bari") in January
1895, which he estimated had 3,000 inhabitants at the time.
By 1932,
the Italians
had built a
road from Danot to Geladin over terrain that
officially lay within Ethiopian territory. This was one of
many acts that led to the
Second Italian-Abyssinian War
years later.
Based on figures from the
Central Statistical
Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of
10,795, of whom 5,961 are men and 4,834 are women. The 1997 census
reported this town had a total population of 7,233 of whom 3,938
were men and 3,295 women. The largest ethnic group reported in this
town was the
Somali (99.17%). It is
the largest town in
Geladin
woreda.
Notes
- Donaldson-Smith, Through Unknown African Countries: the
first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolph (London,
1897), p. 130
- "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa
Institute website (accessed 6 December 2007)
- CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
- 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia:
Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.4, 2.14
(accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the
Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in
1997.