Beshasha (meaning 'open handed/kind' in Afaan Oromoo) is a town in central Ethiopia. It is located in the Gomma woreda near Agaro, which is a part of the Jimma Zone in the Oromia Region. The town is well known for being the birthplace of Ethiopian prime minister and 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed.
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Beshasha has an estimated total population of 2,624 of whom 1,320 were males and 1,304 were females. The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 1,467 of whom 716 were males and 751 were females. It is one of six towns in Gomma woreda.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).