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The land of the Oromo Nation is known as Oromia (sometimes spelled Oromiya). It is located within Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, between three and 15 degrees north latitude, and 33 and 40 degrees east longitude.

Oromia is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia. Covering 353,632 km2 from the east to the southwest of the country, its population was estimated in 2002 at about twenty-four million, making it the largest state in terms of both population and land area.

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