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Asabot is a town in eastern
Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
. Named after a nearby mountain, this town is located in the
West Hararghe Zone West Hararge () is a zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. West Hararghe takes its name from the former province of Hararghe. West Harerge is bordered on the south by the Shebelle River which separates it from Bale, on the southwest by Arsi, o ...
of the
Oromia Region Oromia (Amharic: ) ( om, Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. The capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa. It is bordered by the Somali Region to the east; the Amhara Region, the Afar Region and the Benis ...
, with a latitude and longitude of . It is served by a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway. Between 1954 and 1967 telephone service reached the town."Local History in Ethiopia"
The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 26 July 2009)
Mobile telephone service was introduced to Asabot May 2009. A local landmark is the church, dedicated to Kidist Selassie ("Holy Tinity"), which was decorated with paintings by the artist Emailaf Heruy in the 1930s. Based on figures from the
Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growt ...
in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 13,130, of whom 6,767 are men and 6,363 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4
The 1994 national census reported Asabot had a total population of 7,335, of whom 3,670 were men and 3,665 were women. It is one of five towns in Mieso
woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas ( am, ወረዳ; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''zones'' and the '' regional states''. These districts are further subdivided into a number of ...
. Asabot has a 13th-century monastery near the mountain called asabot Gedam Monastery


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Populated places in the Oromia Region {{Oromia-geo-stub