Sedie (also known as Sedie Giyorgis) is a town and woreda in west-central

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 Misraq Gojjam Zone of the

Amhara Region The Amhara Region (), officially the Amhara National Regional State (), is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara people, Amhara, Awi people, Awi, Xamir people, Xamir, Argobba people, Argobba, a ...

, it has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2555 meters above sea level. The town was organized in the 1930s. Sedie woreda features four high school (in 2011 E.C), and 3 clinic (''tena tabia''). Based on figures from the

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in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 2,309, of whom 1,013 are men and 1,296 are women. The 1994 national census reported a total population for Sede of 1,345 in 408 households, of whom 533 were men and 812 were women. The majority of the inhabitants practiced

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, with 94.6% reporting that as their religion, while 5.4% were

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.''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region'', Vol. 1, part 1
Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.17, Annex II.1 (accessed 9 April 2009)

References

Populated places in the Amhara Region {{Amhara-geo-stub