Maji (also known as Dizi) is a

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...

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. Part of the

West Omo zone West Omo or Mirab Omo is a Zone in the Ethiopian South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region. West Omo is located at Ethiopia's southern margin, where Maji and Surma woredas are bordering Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a coun ...

, Maji is bordered on the south by the Kibish River which separates it from

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, on the west by Surma, on the northwest by Bero, on the north by Meinit Shasha, and on the east by the Omo River which separates it from the

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. Towns in Maji include Tum and Maji. The western part of Maji was separated to create Bero woreda and some southern kebeles were added to Nyangatom woreda. Rivers in this woreda include the Netube and the Mui. High points include Mount Tiyaki and Mount Siski. A major portion of Maji is included in the Omo National Park. Maji suffers from a lack of roads and means of transport; remote locations are accessible only by air. In May 2009, a Malaysian investor with over 3.7 billion Birr in capital was granted a lease to over 31,000 hectares of land to develop

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on. The Zonal authorities also granted him an additional 10,000 hectares to cultivate rubber trees on.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 31,088, of whom 15,072 are men and 16,016 women; 4,838 or 15.56% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants practiced

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, with 62.23% of the population reporting that belief, 18.44% practiced traditional beliefs, 16.66% were

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, and 1.16% were

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. In the 1994 national census Dizi had a population of 22,346, of whom 10,738 were men and 11,608 women; 4,316 or 19.31% of its population were urban dwellers. The three largest ethnic groups reported in this woreda were the Dizi (84.89%), the Amhara (9.41%), and the Oromo (3.07%); all other ethnic groups made up 2.63% of the population. Dizin was spoken as a first language by 83.42% of the inhabitants, and 15.3% spoke

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; the remaining 1.28% spoke all other primary languages reported. Concerning

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, 24.74% of the population were considered literate; 15.67% of children aged 7–12 were in primary school; 7.85% of the children aged 13–14 were in junior secondary school, and 5.41% of the inhabitants aged 15–18 were in senior secondary school. Concerning sanitary conditions, about 57% of the urban and 14% of the total had toilet facilities.''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region'', Vol. 1, part 2
, Tables 6.3, 6.13 (accessed 17 April 2009)

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