Waja (also known as Waja Temuga) is a town in northern

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the

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, south of the city of Alamata, Waja has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1471 meters above sea level. It is one of two towns in Alamata

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...

. Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary school in 1968. Based on figures from the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...

in 2005, Waja has an estimated total population of 11,020, of whom 5,373 are men and 5,647 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
Table B.4 The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 6,050, of whom 2,732 were men and 3,318 were women.

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