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The
Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region |
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The
Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's
Region is positioned in the Southern and
southwestern part of Ethiopia. Astronomically,
it roughly lies between 4.43 °- 8.58°
North latitude and 34.88°- 39.14°
East longitude.Within an area of 110,931.9
Sq.Km (about 10% of the country) it accommodates
an estimated size of 14,909,057 people (1998
E.C.) - accounting nearly 20% of the total
population of the country. As a result it
has a population density of 134 persons
per sq.k.m, which makes the region the most
populous part of the country. |
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The
region consists of about 56 ethnic groups
with their own distinct language, cultures,
beliefs, traditions, rituals, norms, values
and social identities living together. These
varied ethnic groups are categorized under
the Cushetic, Omotic, Nilo-Sahara and Semitic
super language families. Among which Cushetic
and Omotic are the most populous and diversified
ones with the largest area coverage in the
region respectively. |
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The
mean annual temperature of the region varies
from less than 10°C in the extreme highlands
to the east /parts of Sidama highlands/
to over 27 °C in the lowlands to the
south in the omo rate plain /Debub Omo zone/. |
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| Data
collected about the region indicates that
the Gross Enrollemet Rate (GER) & Net
Enrollment Rate (NER) is 89.6 & 78.6
respectively. GER of male (101.1) is higher
than female (78.1) |
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health coverage of the region reaches 76%.
The highest health coverage is occurred
in Debub Omo Zone (106%) followed by Benchi
Maji Zone (98%) & Yem Spesial wereda
(87%) respectively. |
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| Wildlife
Conservation Areas |
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The
diverse climate, topography, water and forest
resources of the country have provided a wide
range of environments for supporting great varieties
of faunas and floras. So far 277 species of mammals
and 847 species of birds have already been distinguished,
of which 7(seven) species of mammals and 16(sixteen)
species of birds are peculiar to Ethiopia. In
the SNNPR as the ecology permits more than 150
species of mammals and about 600 species of birds
have been registered the wildlife conservation
areas of the region. |
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Nowadays
telephone services are expanding in the
region. There are four types of telephone
services, namely: digital, automatic digital,
semi automatic, and pay stations. Totally
141 telephone stations are found in the
towns of the region; from which 64 are semi
automatic, 39 are digital, 30 are pay stations
(almost Vsat) and 2 are automatic digital.
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Although
the establishment of fast electronic communication
systems through internet and telephone are
overwhelming; currently there are about
90 towns having different level postal services.
When one can see the overall service; two
district post offices are found in Awassa
and Arbaminch city; while 16 post offices,
18 departmental post offices and 54 sub-post
offices are found distributed in all zones
and special woredas of the region. |
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In
the region 166 towns and villages have electric
service provision though interconnected
system and diesel generator supplied by
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. On
the other hand, 8 towns have fixed time
diesel power supply through public participation.
Therefore this indicates that more than
90% of towns in the region are electrified
through inter connected system whereas in
some special woredas, Debub Omo and Bench
Maji Zones the supply is largely from diesel
generator. |
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| Regional
Facts |
| Population
2005:
14.5 million |
| Rural
Area Pop 2005: 92% |
| Pop.
Growth Rate 2005: 2.9% |
| Size:
110,931 sq km |
| Per
Capita Prod.
2005: 1,153 Birr |
| Growth
Rate of GDP 2005:
11% |
| HIV/AIDS
Prevalence 2003: 2.8% |
| Clean
Water Cov. 2005:
48% |
| Infant
Mortality Rate 2005:
107/1000 |
| Life
Expectancy 2005:
53 (f), 51(m) |
| Main
Language: Amharic |
| No.
of Zones: 13 |
| No.
of Special Woredas:
8 |
| No.
of Woredas: 125 |
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No. of
Reform Cities:
125 |
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