West Imi ( so, Iimeey Galbeed) is one of the Districts of Afder Zone in the

Somali Region The Somali Region ( so, Deegaanka Soomaalida, am, ሱማሌ ክልል, Sumalē Kilil, ar, المنطقة الصومالية), also known as Soomaali Galbeed (''Western Somalia'') and officially the Somali Regional State, is a regional stat ...

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 ...

. It is named for the historically significant village, Imi. Part of the Afder Zone, West Imi is bordered on the south by nowiki/>Elekere,_on_the_west_by_Raytu_district_Oromia_Region.html" ;"title="Elekere.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Elekere">nowiki/>Elekere, on the west by Raytu district Oromia Region">Elekere.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Elekere">nowiki/>Elekere, on the west by Raytu district Oromia Region, on the north by the Nogob Zone, and on the northeast by the Shebelle River which separates it from the Shabelle Zone.The major village in Mirab Imi is Jiiq and it is settled by the karanle hawiye CLAN. The average elevation in this woreda is 459 meters above sea level. , West Imi has no all-weather gravel road nor any community roads; about 14.2% of the total population has access to drinking water. The Shebelle River burst its banks in November 2008, and affected 17

kebele A ward ( am, ቀበሌ; om, Araddaa; ) is the smallest administrative unit of Ethiopia: a ward, a neighbourhood or a localized and delimited group of people. It is part of a district, itself usually part of a zone, which in turn are grouped into ...

s in West Imi, damaging crops on 3,200 hectares of farmland.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by 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 ...

of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 48,104, of whom 27,067 are men and 21,037 women. While 7,897 or 16.42% are urban inhabitants, a further 10,811 or 22.47% are pastoralists. 98.72% of the population said they were Muslim, This woreda is mainly inhabited karanle hawiye of Somali . Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region
, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4. The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 48,675, of whom 20,627 were men and 18,048 were women; 1,197 or 3.1% of its population were urban dwellers. (This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of 32 rural

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

, which were not counted; they were estimated to have 3,436 inhabitants, of whom 1,847 were men and 1,589 women.)

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