Harshin (Amharic: ሀርሺን; () is a town and the capital of the Harshin woreda, in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, near the border with Somaliland.
Notable people Eid Daahir Farah - Former president of Somali Region. He was Born in Harshin.Asnake Kefale Adegehe, Federalism and ethnic conflict in Ethiopia: a comparative study of the Somali and Benishangul-Gumuz regions Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Doctoral thesis (2009), p. 138
Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), the town had a population of 8,226, with the wider woreda having a total population of 80,244, of whom 43,869 are men and 36,375 women. While 8,226 or 10.25% are urban inhabitants, a further 39,275 or 48.95% are pastoralists. 99.39% of the population said they were Muslim.Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4. This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Reer Samatar branch of the Hussein Abokar, Sacad Muse sub-clan of the Habr Awal."Changing Pastoralism in the Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (Region 5)", UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated 30 May 1998 (accessed 22 December 20080
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 66,488, of whom 35,145 were men and 31,343 were women; 6,409 or 9.64% were urban inhabitants. The largest ethnic group reported in Harshin was the Somali people (99.89%).1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 , Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.12,
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