The seriousness in magnitude of physical violence, and lack of information on the dimensions andrncontext of the problem here in Ethiopia, have made this paper to be important. A cross-sectionalrnsurvey and a focus group discussion were conducted in Meskanena Mareko woreda, South westernrnEthiopia, for a period of one month with an objective to assess the magnitude and types of physicalrnviolence against married women and its associated factors. A total of 673 married women werernincluded in the study.rnThe study found out the overall prevalence of physical violence on married women to be 45.0 %rnand 9.7 % in their lifetime and last three months, respectively. The type of physical violence mostrnfrequently observed was slapping or hitting a woman with a fist, kicking with leg, and hitting withrnstick or iron bar. The out comes of the physical violence ranged from small laceration tornpermanent damages.rnThe study has also shown that khat chewing than not chewing (OR= 1.59, 95 % CI: 1.13, 2.23),rnmarriage initiated by family than by self (OR= 1.94, 95 % CI: 1.14, 3.37), having history ofrnparental spousal abuse than don't have (OR= 1.89 95 % CI: 1.37, 2.39), having social confidantrnthan don't have (OR= 1.95, 95 % CI: 1.30, 2.97) and alcoholic than non alcoholic spouses were thernmost contributing factors to the increase in magnitude of physical violence against married women.rnWe recommend policy makers to be involved to entail the problem and increase public awarenessrnof physical violence and introduce enforcing law and other researchers to carry out an in depthrnstudy to identify circumstances of physical violence, what the community regards physical violencernand to come up with further analysis in terms of spouses point of view.