Gibe is one of the
woredas in the
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of
Ethiopia. Part of the
Hadiya Zone
Hadiya (also transliterated Hadiyya) is a zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This zone is named after the Hadiya of the Hadiya Kingdom, whose homeland covers part of the administrative division. Hadiya ...
, Gibe is bordered on the south by
Gomibora
Gomibora is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Hadiya Zone, Gomibora is bordered on the south by Soro, on the west by the Yem special woreda, on the north by Gibe, on the n ...
, on the west by the
Yem Special Woreda, and on the north and east by
Misha
Misha (russian: Миша), also known as Mishka (russian: Мишка) or The Olympic Mishka (russian: Олимпийский Мишка), is the name of the Russian Bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (the XXII Summer Olympics). He wa ...
. Towns in Misha include
Homecho. It was part of former
Konteb woreda.
Demographics
Based on the 2007 census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 109,256, of whom 54,224 are men and 55,032 women; 5,066 or 4.64% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were
Protestants
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
, with 92.87% of the population reporting that belief, and 5.73% practiced
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
Census 2007 Tables: Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
, Tables 2.1, and 3.4.
Notes
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Districts of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region