Fiq (woreda)
Fiq (Somali: Fiiq) is a woreda in Somali Region, Ethiopia, named after its major town, Fiq. Part of the Fiq Zone, Fiq is bordered on the south by Hamero, on the western Qubi ,on the west by Mayumuluka, on the north by the Jijiga Zone, on the east by the Degehabur Zone, and on the southeast by Segeg; the woreda's western boundary is defined by the Erer River.
The average elevation in this woreda is 1035 meters above sea level.[1] As of 2008[update], Ayesha has 40 kilometers of all-weather gravel road and 451 kilometers of community roads; about 9.11% of the total population has access to drinking water.[2]
Demographics[edit]
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 68,047, of whom 36,037 are men and 32,011 are women and 68,060 women. While 9.31% are urban inhabitants, a further 56.68% are pastoralists. 99.3% of the population said they were Muslim.[3] This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Ogaden malingour clan.
The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 12,961, of whom 6,684 were men and 6277 were women; 46% of its population were urban dwellers. (This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of 3 rural kebeles, which were not counted; they were estimated to have 1,225 inhabitants, of whom 676 were men and 549 women.) The largest ethnic group reported in Fiq were Abdille clan of the larger ogaden of the Somalis (99.84%).[4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (accessed 23 March 2009)
- ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey, Annexes 16, 17
- ^ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived November 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.13 (accessed 12 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.
