Sagan is a town in southern

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

Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (often abbreviated as SNNPR; ) was a regional state in southwestern Ethiopia. It was formed from the merger of five ''kililoch'', called Regions 7 to 11, following the regional council ele ...

, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1066 meters above sea level. It is named after the nearby

Sagan River The Sagan River is a seasonal river in southern Ethiopia. Rising in the Ethiopian Highlands mountains east of Lake Chamo, it flows south then west to join the Weito River at . It defines part of the boundary between the Southern Nations, Nati ...

, a tributary of the Weito. An elementary school building was constructed in Sagan with assistance from

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through ESBU. The school was opened in 1966

Demographics

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 2005, Sagan has an estimated total population of 5,335 of whom 2,592 are men and 2,743 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4 The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 2,944 of whom 1,435 were males and 1,509 were females. It is one of three towns in Konso special

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 ...

Notes

Populated places in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region {{SouthernNationsET-geo-stub