Meta Robi

Meta Robi is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the West Shewa Zone, it is bordered on the south by Ejerie, on the southwest by Jeldu, on the northwest by Ginde Beret, on the north by the Muger River (which separates it from the North Shewa Zone), and on the east by Adda Berga. The major town in Meta Robi is Sheno.

The missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf passed through the district of a tribe of the Oromo, who were called the Meta Robi, named in part after a local river, the Robi on 27 January 1840. The river was in Shewa, southwest of Ankober.

Demographics

The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 140,627, of whom 69,664 were men and 70,963 were women; 4,027 or 2.86% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 62.35% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 27.49% of the population were Protestant, and 9.76% practiced traditional beliefs.