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Meket
መቄት
Woreda
Flag of Meket
CountryEthiopia
RegionAmhara
ZoneSemien Wollo
Area
[1]
 • Total1,909.25 km2 (737.17 sq mi)
Population
 (2012 est.)[1]
 • Total81,284[2]

Meket (Amharic: መቄት) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.[3] It is named after a former district located approximately in this area.[4] Located on the western side of the Semien Wollo Zone, Meket is bordered on the south by Wadla and Dawunt, on the west by the Debub Gondar Zone, on the northwest by Bugna, on the north by Lasta, on the northeast by Gidan, and on the east by Guba Lafto. The administrative center of Meket is Filakit Gereger; other settlements include Debre Zebit and Weketa.

  1. ^ a b Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "GeoHive - Ethiopia population statistics". www.geohive.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ^ Svein Ege identifies this woreda with one otherwise known as Saron Meda. "North Wälo 1:100,000. Topographic and administrative map of North Wälo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Trondheim, NTNU, 2002
  4. ^ Mentioned in the Royal Chronicle of Bakaffa, who gave it over to his Oromo soldiers to be plundered, while returning from a campaign in 1726. (James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 4 p. 88)

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