Gelila, Ethiopia
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Gelila (
Amharic Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populati ...
: ገሊላ) is a town in western
Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
. Located in the
East Welega Zone East Welega () is one of the zones in the central Oromia Region of Ethiopia. This administrative division acquired its name from the former province of Welega. Towns and cities in this zone include Nekemte. East Welega is bounded on the southwe ...
of the
Oromia Region Oromia (, ) is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. Under Article 49 of 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Constitution, the capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa, also called Finfinne. The ...
, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2140 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of
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woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...
.


Overview

Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Gelila during the year 1968. Landmarks in the town include the church of St. Giyorgis. Based on figures from the
Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...
in 2014, Gelila has an estimated total population of 8,890 of whom 4,248 are men and 4,642 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4 The 2012 census reported this town had a total population of 8,741 of whom 4,219 were men and 4,522 women.


Notes

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