Milo (also transliterated Mello) is a town in eastern
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
Shinile Zone of the
Somali Region. This town is served by a
station on the
Ethio-Djibouti Railways.
Demographics
The town's inhabitants belong to various mainly
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...
-speaking ethnic groups, with the
Issa Somali predominant. Based on figures from the
Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Milo has an estimated total population of 2,173, of whom 1,114 are men and 1,059 are women. The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 1,458 of whom 736 were men and 722 women. The two largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the
Somali (98.42%), and the
Amhara (0.75%); all other ethnic groups made up the remaining 0.83% of the residents.
''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1''
Tables 2.4, 2.14 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997. It is one of four towns in Shinile 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 ...
.
References
Populated places in the Somali Region
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