Dizi is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Woreda (also spelled wereda) is an Administrative division of Ethiopia (managed by a local government equivalent to a District. Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region (often abbreviated as SNNPR) is one of the nine ethnic divisions ( kililoch) of Ethiopia NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page It is named after the Dizi people, whose homeland lies in the northern part of this district; a different ethnic group, the Surma, inhabit the southern part. Surma is the Ethiopian government's collective name for the Suri, the Mursi and the Me'en. Part of the Bench Maji Zone, Dizi is bordered on the south by the Kibish River which separates it from Sudan, on the west by Surma, on the north by Meinit, and on the east by the Omo River which separates it from the Debub Omo Zone. Bench Maji is a Zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. Surma is one of the 77 Woredas in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Meinit is one of the 77 Woredas in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The Omo River is an important river of southern Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia and empties into Lake Turkana on the Debub Omo (or "South Omo" is a Zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR Towns in Dizi include Tum and Maji. Maji is a town in southern Ethiopia. It is located on the Boma plateau, lying in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern
Rivers in this woreda include the Netube and the Mui. A major portion of Dizi is included in the Omo National Park. Omo National Park is one of the National Parks of Ethiopia. Located in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region on the west bank of the
Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 33,218, of whom 17,270 were males and 15,948 were females; 7,820 or 23. The Central Statistical Agency ( CSA; Amh: የማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated 54% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 9. 1%. With an estimated area of 5,775. 31 square kilometers, Dizi has an estimated population density of 5. 8 people per square kilometer, which is less than the Zone average of 20. [1]