Babille, Somali (woreda)

It encompasses a great majority of the Babile Elephant Sanctuary, with key areas such as Dakhate being located there, as well as towns like the district center Dhandhame, Obosha, Ceel-Baxay and Kora which are also located in this district.

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 77,317, of whom 41,629 are men and 35,688 women.

[1] This woreda is inhabited mainly by the Karanle and Gugundhabe Hawiye as well as other Hawiye sub-clans and also has a sizable minority of other Somali clans such as Geri Koombe of the Darod.

The largest ethnic group reported in Babille was the Somali people (99.97%).

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