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Kobo
Oromiatown
Demographic figures from Ethiopian Statistical Service. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Within Oromia, Ethiopia, Kobo stands as a town. On the world map it falls within the Eastern Hemisphere, specifically at 9.376°, 41.474°. Detailed population figures are not currently catalogued in the open data sources we track. Its latitude implies a climate characterised by hot and humid year-round with little seasonal temperature variation. Open solar datasets indicate about 2,316 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year, combined with sunshine for roughly 91% of daylight hours. Read on for charts and tables covering demographics, climate, hazards, schools, wildlife and other open-data indicators for Kobo.
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History & geography
History
From 1928 until 1930 there was a large revolt over taxes and central government control in the Raya area. The military and areal bombardment was used to regain central control. This marked the first use of air power in Ethiopia. Some of the local rebels were involved with attacking Ethiopian forces when the Italians invaded in 1936. In January 1942 a clash at Kobo between locals and soldiers collecting taxes led to three British officers and nine Ethiopian soldiers killed. The Ethiopian government responded with an aerial bombardment of the town. This skirmish was one of the events which lead up to the Woyane rebellion. In mid-1972, a young District Development Officer, Abebaw Kasai, sent a full report concerning conditions in the district to the Ministry of Community Development; this was the first warning of what became the brutal 1973–74 famine which set off the Ethiopian Revolution and led to the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie. The report was received with interest by the Ministry of Community Development, but was rejected by the Ministry of the Interior. Abebaw was severely reprimanded and told never to send such a negative report again. In May 1983 the Catholic Relief Services made grant distributions from the Agency for International Development at Kobo in response to the later famine, By the next year, with the famine clearly underway, several thousand Afar people had come to the Catholic mission in Kobo in search of help; they had fled the lowlands after losing all their livestock. Between 15 October and 2 November 1989 Kobo was subjected to four air attacks by the government forces. Casualties are not known, but the clinic was strafed by helicopter gunships. The next month the Ethiopian Catholic Church announced the completion of a modern hospital…
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Geography
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Climate
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Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 4.3 — 2023-05-0737 km ESE of Gewanē, Ethiopia
- M 4.3 — 2022-03-0870 km NNW of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- M 4.6 — 2021-10-24Ethiopia
- M 4.5 — 2021-10-1868 km NW of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- M 4.5 — 2021-10-1552 km NNW of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- M 4.2 — 2021-04-2310 km NNW of Harar, Ethiopia
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Oromia
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API