Mizan Tefere (also called Mizan-Aman or simply Mizan) is the largest town in South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region and one of four Capital cities of the region.[2] Mizan is also the administrative centre, of the Bench Sheko Zone in the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Located about 160 kilometers southwest of Jimma, Mizan Tefere has a latitude and longitude of 7°0′N 35°35′E / 7.000°N 35.583°E and an elevation of 1451 meters. Mizan Teferi, together with the neighbouring town of Aman, forms a separate woreda called Mizan Aman. This is surrounded by Debub Bench woreda.
Mizan-Aman | |
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Town | |
  Mizan-Aman Location within Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates: 7°0′N 35°35′E / 7.000°N 35.583°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region |
| Zone | Bench Sheko |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 91,437 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| Area code | 47 |
| Climate | Aw |
Overview
editMizan Tefere is served by an airport (ICAO code HAMT, IATA MTF) with an unpaved runway. Until 1966, the town was connected by only a dry weather road to Gore; that year the roads to Bonga and Tepi were improved by the Highway Authority.[3] Further proposed improvements were promised on 13 December 2006, when the Ethiopian government announced that it had secured a loan of US$98 million from the African Development Bank to pave the 227 kilometers of highway between Jimma and Mizan Teferi to the southwest. The loan would cover 64% of the 1270.97 million Birr budgeted for this project.[4]
By 1996 there was 24-hour electricity, and access to potable water.[3]
According to the SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, as of 2003[update] Mizan Teferi's amenities also include digital telephone access, postal service, and a bank and a hospital.[5] Near the town is the Bebeka coffee plantation. It is also the location of two institutions of higher education, Aman Health Science College and Mizan - Tepi University.[citation needed]
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary and secondary school in 1968, and a 70-bed hospital built in 1989.[3] During the existence of the Bench Zone (created in the mid-1990s) Mizan Teferi was its administrative center.
Demographics
editBased on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, woreda of Mizan Aman has a total population of 34,080, of whom 18,138 are men and 15,942 women. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 45.97% of the population reporting that belief, 33.8% were Protestants, 17.71% were Muslim, and 1.05% practiced traditional beliefs. [6]
The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 10,652 of whom 5,612 were males and 5,040 were females.
Notes
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- ^ http://www.statsethiopia.gov.et/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Population-Size-by-Sex-Zone-and-Wereda-July-2022.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "ክልሉ አራት ዋና ከተሞች እንደሚኖሩት ተገለጸ – የኢትዮጵያ ፕሬስ ድርጅት".
- ^ a b c "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived 2011-05-28 at the Wayback Machine The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 February 2008)
- ^ "Ethiopian Embassy Newsletter", Nov/Dec 2006, p.2 [permanent dead link], Ethiopian Embassy to the UK website (accessed 11 January 2007)
- ^ "Detailed statistics on hotels and tourism" Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Bureau of Finance and Economic Development website (accessed 4 September 2009)
- ^ Census 2007 Tables: Southern Peoples, Nations and Nationalities Region, Tables 2.1, and 3.4.