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Can you locate all ten states of South Sudan?
Can you locate all 47 counties of Kenya?
Can you place all 47 provinces of Burkina Faso?
Can you locate the 14 regions of Ethiopia, and its disputed areas?
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Under the regions of Ethiopia sit 107 zones, from the urban half of Dire Dawa that fits in a few square kilometres to Doolo, in the Somali region, which is larger than Switzerland. This is the full list, grouped by the region each one belongs to.
The zones of Ethiopia, the second tier of the country, as OCHA draws them. Most are named for a people or a place: Gamo, Wolayita, Guraghe, Borena. Oromia and Amhara use older names for the same idea (East Hararge, North Gondar), while the Somali region uses names such as Fafan and Shabelle that are mostly rivers.
A few are not zones in the usual sense. The file includes special woredas (Alle, Kebena, Mareko, Tembaro, Itang, Mao-Komo), towns administered on their own (Hawassa, Bahir Dar, Sheger City) and the two halves of Dire Dawa. Where the source calls two zones in different regions by the same word, such as Central, Eastern and Southern in both Tigray and Sidama, the game adds the region so that each answer has a name of its own. The zones of Afar are numbered from 1 to 6 and are given with their names.
The three disputed areas are the land between Tigray and Amhara in the north that both claim. They are drawn as part of Ethiopia and named Disputed area 1, 2 and 3, not given to either side.
The map is uneven. The Rift Valley and the highlands are carved fine, while the south east, in the Somali region, is carved coarsely, so a few zones there cover as much ground as a small country.
The groups are the regions, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each region answers under the same name in Ethiopia Regions.
Doolo is the largest zone, on the southern border with Somalia and Kenya in the Somali region.
The urban part of Dire Dawa is under a hundred square kilometres. It is small enough to need a tap area on the map.
The first disputed area is the largest of the three, in the north west, where Tigray and Amhara meet. The game draws it without taking a side.
107 on this map, counting special woredas and city administrations that are treated as zones, and the three disputed areas.
Tigray and Sidama each use those words for their zones. The game puts the region after or before them, as in Central Tigray, so that each answer is unique.
The source draws three areas between Tigray and Amhara that are claimed by both and does not assign them. They are part of Ethiopia on this map.
The tier above this one is Ethiopia Regions. For another country at this level, see Madagascar Districts.
