Shinile () is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Shinile Zone of the Somali Region, it is 9km northeast of Dire Dawa, the first station of the Ethio-Djibouti Railways east of Dire Dawa is at Shinile.[ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 19 December 2007)]
Demographics
The town's inhabitants belong to various mainly
Afro-Asiatic-speaking ethnic groups, with the Issa
Somali people predominant. Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Shinile has an estimated total population of 207,367.
The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 8,809 of whom 4,464 were men and 4,345 women. The three largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the
Somali people (96.58%), the
Oromo people (1.76%), and the
Amhara people (1.5%); all other ethnic groups made up the remaining 0.16% of the residents.
[ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.4, 2.14 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.] It is the largest of four towns in Shinile
woreda.
Climate
Shinile has a hot semi-arid climate (
BSh) in Köppen-Geiger system.
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