Āfdem

Āfdem (Amharic:አፍደም)is a town is east central Ethiopia. Located in the Shinile Zone of the Somali Region. It is the administrative center of Afdem woreda. It sprawls on a wide basin surrounded by granitic mountains on all sides.

Āfdem lies at the base of its namesake Mount Afdem, a volcanic cone with a denuded caldera. Postal service for the town began at least as early as 1944; Āfdem had phone service by 1967. Āfdem is served by a railway station on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway.