Old Harar

Harar (or Hārer, Harer), commonly known asGey and titled "the City of Saints" ("Madinat al-Awilya"), is a walled city in easternEthiopia, formerly the capital of Harergey and now the capital of the modern Harari ethno-political division (or kilil) of Ethiopia. The city is located on a hilltop in the eastern extension of the Ethiopian Highlands, about five hundred kilometers from Addis Ababa at an elevation of 1,885 meters. Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Harar has an estimated total population of 122,000, of whom 60,000 were males and 62,000 were females.

 According to the census of 1994, on which this estimate is based, the city has a population of 76,378.