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Geladin ( ) is a town in eastern Ethiopiamarker. Located in the Werder Zone of the Somali Regionmarker, 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 Italiansmarker 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.

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  1. Donaldson-Smith, Through Unknown African Countries: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolph (London, 1897), p. 130
  2. "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 6 December 2007)
  3. CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
  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.



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