- For the city in Bosnia, see Banja Luka
Banja is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Banja Luka or Banjaluka ( Cyrillic: Бања Лука ˌbaɲaˈluːka is the capital and the largest Woreda (also spelled wereda) is an Administrative division of Ethiopia (managed by a local government equivalent to a District. Amhara (አማራ is one of the nine ethnic divisions ( Kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page It is named after a significant mountain located in the woreda, Mount Banja, where Fasil crushed a revolt of the Agaw in the late 18th century. The Agaw ( Ge'ez አገው Agaw, modern Agew) are a people of Ethiopia. [1]
Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Banja is bordered on the south by Ankesha, on the west by Guangua, on the north by Faggeta Lekoma, and on the east by the Mirab Gojjam Zone. Agew Awi is one of 10 Zones in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Ankesha is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Guangua is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Faggeta Lekoma is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Mirab Gojjam (or "West Gojjam" is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Towns in Banja include Injibara, Kessa, Kosober and Tilili. Injibara (እንጅባራ is a town in Ethiopia. It is the administrative center of the Agew Awi Zone in the Amhara Region.
Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 208,428, of whom 105,491 were males and 102,937 were females; 17,074 or 8. The Central Statistical Agency ( CSA; Amh: የማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated 19% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 11. 4%. With an estimated area of 832. 51 square kilometers, Banja has an estimated population density of 250. 4 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 155. 7. [2]
Notes
- ^ James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, selected and edited with an introduction by C. James Bruce ( December 14, 1730 &ndash April 27, 1794) was a Scottish traveller and Travel writer who spent more than a F. Beckingham (Edinburgh: University Press, 1964), p. 128.
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B. 3 and B. 4
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