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Wolayita is a zone in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia. It is named for the Wolayita people, whose homeland lies in this Zone. Wolayita is bordered on the south by Gamo Gofa, on the west by the Omo River which separates it from Dawro, on the northwest by Kembata Tembaro, on the north by Hadiya, on the northeast by the Oromia Region, on the east by the Bilate River which separates it from Sidama, and on the south east by the Lake Abaya which separates it from Oromia Region. The administrative centre of Wolayita is Sodo. Other major towns are Bekilo Segno Areka, Bedessa, Gununo, Gesuba Humbo-Tebela, Bitena and Boditi.[citation needed]

Wolayita has 358 kilometres of all-weather roads and 563 kilometres of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 157 kilometres per 1000 square kilometres. The highest point in this Zone is Mount Damota (2738 meters).

Rural Wolayita

Originally Wolayita was part of the Semien (North) Omo Zone, and the 1994 national census counted its inhabitants as part of that Zone. However friction between the various ethnic groups in Semien Omo, which was often blamed on the Wolayita for "ethnic chauvinism" and despite of the efforts of the ruling party to emphasise the need to co-ordinate, consolidate, and unify the smaller ethnic units to achieve the "efficient use of scarce government resources", eventually led to the division of the Zone in 2000, resulting with the creation of not only the Wolayita, but also the Gamo Gofa and Dawro Zones and two special woredas.

The total population of the zone is estimated about 6,941,339 with a density of 658 inhabitants per square kilometer. The zone has three agro-ecological zones. Dega(Geziya)(20.204%) Weyna Dega(Bariguwa) (49.796%) and Kolla(Gara) (30%).42% of the total population populated at the dega and 34% populated at weyna dega and the rest of 24% of population populated at the kolla

There was totally 12 woredas in wolayita zone, in each of these woreda, highly populated. The name of woredas and cities of each woredas as follows.

Name of woredas               city name

1, Kindo koysha                   Bale

2,Kindo didaye                    Halale

3, Damot woyde                 Badessa

4, Damot Galle                   Boditti

5, Bollosso Sore                  Areka

6,Duguna Fango                 Bitena

7,Damot pulassa                Shantto

8,Humbo                             Xaballa

9, Offa                                  Gassubba

10,Bolloso Bombe                Bombbe

11,Soddo zuriya                   Sodo

12, Damot sore                    Gununo