Provinces of Ethiopia

Ethiopia was divided into provinces, further subdivided into awrajjas or districts, until they were replaced by regions (kililoch) and chartered cities in 1992.

The 13 provinces after Bale split from Hararghe in 1960

Provinces

Ethiopia was divided into 12 provinces (taklai ghizat) by Imperial Ethiopian Government Decree No. 1 of 1942 and later amendments.[1] The 12 provinces were:

Bale was created as a 13th province when it was split off from Hararghe in 1960. Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia and made a 14th province in 1962.[1]

When the Derg took power in 1974 they relabeled the provinces as regions (kifle hager).[2] By 1981 Addis Ababa had become a separate administrative division from Shewa, and Aseb was split off from Eritrea in 1981, making 16 administrative divisions in total.[3] With the exception of Arsi (whose name derives from the eponymous Oromo subgroup, and which initially included majority-Gurage area later attached to Shewa province), all of the provinces were deliberately drawn to include multiple "tribes" (or ethnicities) as to better facilitate national cohesion.

Under the 1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, the military rule of the Derg evolved into the civilian government of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and chapter 8 of the Constitution determined that the state would be subdivided into "autonomous regions" and "administrative regions". Chapter 9 gave to the National Shengo (the legislature) the power to establish the regions.[4] The Shengo established the regions in Proclamation No. 14 of 1987, on 18 September. There were thirty regions, consisting of five autonomous regions, and twenty-five administrative regions. The five autonomous regions were:[5]

The twenty-five administrative regions were:[6]

Older provinces, which are frequently used to indicate location within Ethiopia, include:

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References
  1. Bereket Habte Selassie (1966). "Constitutional development in Ethiopia". Journal of African Law. 10 (2): 79. JSTOR 744683.
  2. Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Berry, LaVerle, eds. (1993). Country profile: Ethiopia (PDF). Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 222.
  3. Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Berry, LaVerle, eds. (1993). Country profile: Ethiopia (PDF). Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 334.
  4. "The Constitution of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia". Review of Socialist Law. 14 (1): 181–208. 1988. doi:10.1163/187529888X00095.
  5. Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Berry, LaVerle, eds. (1993). Country profile: Ethiopia (PDF). Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 223.
  6. Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Berry, LaVerle, eds. (1993). Country profile: Ethiopia (PDF). Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. xxiii.


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