Sire, Arsi

Sire, Arsi Siree, Arsii (Oromo)
Town
Sire, Arsi Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 08°17′N 39°27′E / 8.283°N 39.450°E / 8.283; 39.450
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Oromia
Zone	Arsi Zone
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)

Sire (also transliterated "Sirie") is a town in south-western Oromia. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia, Ethiopia. This town has a latitude and longitude of 08°17′N 39°27′E / 8.283°N 39.450°E / 8.283; 39.450 with an altitude of 1793 meters above sea level. It is administrative center of Sire woreda (Aanaa Siree in Oromo language). Currently Sire District or Aanaa Siree is divided in to seventeen rural administrative communes or Kebele peasant Associations (in oromo, Araddaa Waldaya Qotebultoota ) and one urban town administration. The rural community or Araddaa in Sire District are the following: Alelu Gasala (Aleelu Gasalaa), Amola Tebbo (Amoolaa Xabboo), Amola Chancho (Amoolaa Caancoo), Borera Chireo (Booraraa Cira'oo), Dankicha Gafarsa (Dhanqicha Gafarsaa), Gasala Amuta (Gasala Amuxaa), Gasala Chacha (Gasala Caaccaa), Gasala Shashe (Gasala Shaashee), Huduga Borano (Huduga Booranoo), Ibseta Huduga (Ibsataa Hudugaa) Koloba Hawas (Kolooba Hawaas), Koloba Bikka (Kolooba Biiqqaa), Koloba Balie (Kolooba Balee), Koloba Shamida (Kolooba Shaamidaa), Lodie Banban (Loodee Banban), Lodie Lammffo (Loodee Lammaffoo) and Ufura Hagamsa (Ufuraa Hagamsaa), The urban Araddaa administration is Sire 01 Araddaa.^{[citation needed]}

C.W. Gwynn passed through Sire in late October 1908 en route to his assignment to delineate the border between Kenya and Ethiopia. He describes the settlement's location at the time as "halfway up the scarp" on the southern side of the Awash River, and Sire itself as "a small Abyssinian village and customs post". He was struck by its "curious little church consisting of a stone-built cube, surmounted by a sharp steeple-like roof, also of stone", which he speculated was originally a Muslim shrine "similar to that at Sheikh Hussein and others in the Arussi country."^[1]

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Sire has an estimated total population of 10,977 of whom 5,404 are men and 5,573 women.^[2] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 6,141 of whom 2,931 were men and 3,210 women.