The administrative center of this woreda is Kokosa; other towns include Diki, Gata, BokoreHebano, Hogiso.
The majority of this woreda (95%) consists of undulating plains, with hills, valleys and mountains covering the rest.
A survey of the land in this woreda shows that 19.5% is arable or cultivable (51% of which was under annual crops), 70% pasture, 7.3% forest, and the remaining 3.2% is considered unusable or other.
[1] Industry in the woreda includes some mining, some small scale businesses and open markets.
The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 56.41% of the population having reported they practiced that belief, while 32.01% of the population held traditional beliefs, 5.98% professed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, 3.72% were Protestant, and 1.17% were Roman Catholic.