West Imi () is one of the

Districts A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

of Afder Zone in the

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. It is named for the historically significant village, Imi. Part of the Afder Zone, West Imi is bordered on the south by nowiki/>Elekere, on the west by Raytu district Oromia Region">Elekere.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Elekere">nowiki/>Elekere, on the west by Raytu district Oromia Region, on the north by the Nogob Zone, and on the northeast by the Shebelle River which separates it from the Shabelle Zone.The major village in Mirab Imi is BUULAA , jiiq , Gabriile and kiliwey it is settled by SOMO clan of sub-clan of ree Abakor. The average elevation in this woreda is 459 meters above sea level. , West Imi has no all-weather gravel road nor any community roads; about 14.2% of the total population has access to drinking water. The Shebelle River burst its banks in November 2008, and affected 17

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s in West Imi, damaging crops on 3,200 hectares of farmland.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 650,104, of whom 420,067 are men and 230,000 women. While 16.42% are urban inhabitants, a further 22.47% are pastoralists. 98.72% of the population said they were

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, This woreda is mainly inhabited ka Gaadsan dir clan of Somali . Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region
, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4. The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 48,675, of whom 20,627 were men and 18,048 were women; 1,197 or 3.1% of its population were urban dwellers. This total also includes an estimate for the inhabitants of 32 rural

villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

, which were not counted; they were estimated to have 3,436 inhabitants, of whom 1,847 were men and 1,589 women.

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