Provinces
Before 1996, Ethiopia was divided into thirteen provinces, many derived from historical regions. Ethiopia now has a tiered government system consisting of a federal government overseeing ethnically-based regional states, zones, districts (woredas), and neighbourhoods (kebele).
Ethiopia is divided into nine ethnically-based administrative regions (kililoch) and subdivided into sixty-eight zones and two chartered cities (astedader akababiwoch): Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. It is further subdivided into 550 woredas and six special woredas. The nine regions are as follows:
- Afar
- Amhara
- Benishangul-Gumaz
- Gambela
- Harari
- Oromia
- Somali
- SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region)
- Tigray