Mizan Teferi
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Mizan Tefere (also called simply Mizan) is a town in southern Ethiopia. The largest town, and the administrative center, of the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, and located about 160 kilometers southwest of Jimma, Mizan Tefere has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1451 meters.
Mizan 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. By 1996 there was 24 hour electricity, and access to potable water. Near the town is the Bedele coffee plantation.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 19,296, of whom 10,136 were males and were 9,160 females.[2] According to the 1994 national census, this town has 10,652 inhabitants. It is one of two towns in Bench woreda.
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.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 February 2008)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.3
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