Konta Zone

It is named after Konta people who speak the dialects called Kontatsuwa, Omotic languages.

However friction between the various ethnic groups in this Zone and despite the efforts of the ruling party to emphasize the need to co-ordinate, consolidate, and unify the smaller ethnic units to achieve the "efficient use of scarce government resources", eventually led to the division of the Zone in 2000, and reorganizing Konta as a special woreda.

[4] Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this zone has a total population of 90,846, of whom 44,686 are men and 46,160 women.

[6] However, Ralph Siebert's local research in 1995 led him to believe that this zone was predominantly inhabited by the Dawro people.

[7] Concerning religious beliefs, the 1994 census reported that 44.55% of the population said they observed traditional religions, 43.19% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 7.53% were Protestants.