Ginbo

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For the woreda in the Oromia Region, see Gimbi (woreda).

Ginbo (sometimes spelled Gimbo) is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The name Ginbo comes from one of the provinces in the former Kingdom of Kaffa. That province, as well as the Kafficho provinces Bonga and Manjo, became districts with the Ethiopian conquest in 1896, and these districts were later merged to form the modern woreda.

Part of the Keficho Shekicho Zone, Ginbo is bordered on the south by Decha, on the west by Chena, on the north by the Gojeb River which separates it from the Oromia Region, on the east by Menjiwo, and on the southeast by Telo. Towns in Ginbo include Bonga, Diri, Gojeb, Keboch, Ufa and Wushwush.

The woreda covers part of the homeland of the Kafficho people.

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 147,905, of whom 75,060 were males and 72,845 were females; 32,577 or 22.03% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 9.7%. With an estimated area of 1,269.38 square kilometers, Ginbo has an estimated population density of 116.5 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 81.9.^[1]

Ginbo was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004 as one of several woredas for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas, becoming the new home for a total of 7800 heads of households and 31,200 total family members.^[2]

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