Manbuk is a town in western

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 ...

. Located in the

Metekel Zone Metekel Zone is located in Benshangul-Gumuz of Ethiopia. It is bordered on the south and southwest by Kamashi, on the west by Sudan, and on the north and east by the Amhara region. The Abay River defines the Zone's boundaries with Kamashi, whi ...

of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Manbuk has a latitude and longitude of . The city is located near the southern foot of

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, at an elevation of 1200 meters. It is the administrative center of Dangur, and the largest settlement in that

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 ...

. G.E.D. Allen passed through this town in 1941, which is opposite a gap in the Western Escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands. 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 growth ...

in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 5,596, of whom 2,528 are men and 3,068 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.3 According to the 1994 national census, its total population was 3,253, of whom 1463 were men and 1790 were women.

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Populated places in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region {{BenishangulGumuz-geo-stub