Tembaro (

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: ጠምባሮ) is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after the inhabiting Tembaro people. A part of the Kembata Tembaro Zone, Tembaro is bordered on the south by the Dawro Zone, on the north by the Hadiya Zone, on the west Hadiya and Dawro on the east by

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, and on the southeast by the Wolayita Zone. Towns in Tembaro include

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, Keleta, and Bultuma. Tembaro was also formerly called Omo Sheleko woreda.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 480,573, of whom 235,334 are men and 245,239 women; 45,615 or 7.21% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were

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, with 77.69% of the population reporting that belief, 14.9% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, 3.36% were Catholic, 2.07% were

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, and 1.17% observed traditional beliefs.Census 2007 Tables: Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
Tables 2.1, and 3.4.

Notes

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