Dire Dawa (which in Somali, Dirirdhaba, means “place of fighting”) is one of two chartered cities (astedader akabibi) in Ethiopia (the other being the capital, Addis Ababa). With a latitude and longitude of this city is the second largest in Ethiopia.
This chartered city is divided administratively into two woredas. The city proper and the non-urban woreda of Gurgura.
The city is an industrial centre, home to several markets and the Aba Tenna Dejazmach Yilma International Airport. Haramaya University is 40 kilometers away from the city. Dire Dawa lies in the east of the nation, on the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as "somewhat like a cluster of tea-leaves in the bottom of a slop-basin." (...)
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