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Ferfer is one of the woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, named after its major town, Ferfer. Part of the Gode Zone, Ferfer is bordered on the west by Mustahil, on the north by the Korahe Zone, and on the east and south by the Provisional Administrative Line with Somalia. Shebelle River is flowing through this woreda.
The average elevation in this woreda is 422 meters above sea level. , Ferfer has 41 kilometers of asphalt road, 60 of all-weather gravel road, and 314 kilometers of community roads; about 21.2% of the total population has access to drinking water.
The October 2007 flooding by the Shebelle River displaced approximately 5,000 people in this woreda, and devastated kebeles that had not been affected in the worst flooding of 2006.
Fer-fer is a town in the Ethiopian Somali Regional State,Close to the border between Ethiopian and somalia( Hiiraan reggion), this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 177 meters above sea level.
During the first three months of 1964, heavy fighting took place between Ethiopia and Somalia at several border points in the Ogaden, one of which was Ferfer. Ferfer was among the locations within Ethiopia that were still under Somali control after Somalia's defeat in the Ogaden War of 1977/78.
The Ethiopian army maintains an important base in Ferfer. In June 2008, the border town was briefly seized by the Somali al-Shabaab.