Dangila is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. 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 This woreda is named after the former district, Dangila, which James Bruce notes was in his day known for its breed of sheep. James Bruce ( December 14, 1730 &ndash April 27, 1794) was a Scottish traveller and Travel writer who spent more than a [1]
Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Dangila is bordered on the south by Faggeta Lekoma, on the southwest by Guangua, on the west by the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, on the northwest by the Semien Gondar Zone, and on the north and east by the Mirab Gojjam Zone. Agew Awi is one of 10 Zones in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Faggeta Lekoma 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. Benishangul-Gumuz, also known as Benshangul/Gumaz, is one of the nine ethnic divisions ( kililoch) of Ethiopia. Semien Gondar (or "North Gondar" is a Zone in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. Mirab Gojjam (or "West Gojjam" is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Towns in Dangila include Addis Alem, Dangila and Dek. Dangila is a town in northwestern Ethiopia. Located in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation
Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 207,769, of whom 104,261 were males and 103,508 were females; 31,656 or 15. The Central Statistical Agency ( CSA; Amh: የማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated 24% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 11. 4%. With an estimated area of 1,540. 63 square kilometers, Dangila has an estimated population density of 134. 9 people per square kilometer, which is less than the Zone average of 155. 7. [2]
Dangila was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as an area for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas. Along with Lay Armachiho and Qwara in the Amhara Region, and Tsegede in the Tigray Region, became the new homes of 8,671 families. Lay Armachiho ( Ge'ez: ላይ አርማችሆ lāy ārmāčihō, Amharic "Upper Armachiho" is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Qwara is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Tsegede (sometimes Sagade) is one of the 36 Woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. For other uses please see Tigre (disambiguation Tigray Region (ትግራይ ክልል Tigrāy Kilil) is the northernmost of the nine [3] This was reportedly accompanied with almost 68 million Birr in infrastructure development. The birr (ብር is the unit of Currency [4]
Notes
- ^ Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, selected and edited with an introduction by C. F. Beckingham (Edinburgh: University Press, 1964), p. 173.
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B. 3 and B. 4
- ^ "More than 15,500 households resettled in Amhara, SNNP and Oromia states" Walta Information Center (WIC)
- ^ "Close to 69mln birr infrastructural dev't works carried out in resettlement sites in Amhara state" (WIC)
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