Debubawi Kayih Bahri
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| Country : | Eritrea |
| Main town : | Assab |
| Area : | 27,600 km² |
| Residents : | 293,000 |
| ISO 3166-2 : | ER-DK |
| Administrator : | Tsegereda Woldegergish |
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Debubawi Kayih Bahri ( ዞባ ደቡባዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ , also written Debubawi Keyih Bahri , Arabic منطقة البحر الأحمر الجنوبية, Italian Regione del Mar Rosso Meridionale ; German Southern Region of the Red Sea ) is a region ( Zoba ) of Eritrea with 293,000 inhabitants and comprises the southern part of the country.
The main town of the region is Assab .
Other cities are Beylul , Raheita and Thio . The region has an area of around 27,600 km² and is 500 kilometers long but only 50 kilometers wide. The east of the region lies on the Red Sea , while the west lies in the Danakil Desert .
The inhabitants of the Debubawi Kayih Bahri region are mainly part of the Afar people , who were also known as Danakil in the past . At the time of the Ethiopian rule over Eritrea, the region was now called Dankalia . Today two of the three sub-regions (districts) are called Denkalia .
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The region is divided into three districts (sub-regions, sub-zones)
Are'eta (main town Tiyo / Thio)
Central Denkalia (main town Edd)
Southern Denkalia (main town Assab)
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- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2006)
Coordinates: 13 ° 4 ′ N , 42 ° 22 ′ E