Jigjiga is the fourth largest city in Ethiopia and the 2 larger than it, namely Adama and Mekelle, are not much larger. To a large extent, Ethiopia has a single large city. It is a country of 130 million that is the size of France+Spain+Portugal. That the only large city of such a country will be large is no surprise. Addis is where everything and everyone who matters is. Think of Kinshasa, Dhaka, Bangkok, Manila or Seoul. Somalia was like this before 1991.
Still, Addis is an outlier even among countries with extreme urban primacy. Addis is like 10x larger than Adama, the second largest city. Too concentrated, very brittle.
Still, Addis is an outlier even among countries with extreme urban primacy. Addis is like 10x larger than Adama, the second largest city. Too concentrated, very brittle.
