Located outside the city of Harar in the East Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 9°29′N 42°14′E / 9.483°N 42.233°E / 9.483; 42.233 and an elevation of 2780 meters above sea level.

According to the Oromia Regional government website, this town has access to telephone and postal service, but lacks electricity.

[1] Ejersa Goro is best known as the birthplace of Emperor Haile Selassie I, the tenth child of Ras Makonnen, then governor of Harar, and Woizero Yeshimebet Ali, on July 23, 1892.

[3] Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Ejersa Goro has an estimated total population of 3,104 of whom 1,529 are men and 1,575 are women.

[4] The 1994 national census reported a total population for this town of 1,736 of whom 829 were men and 907 were women.