page_title: Sodo
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Sodo / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Sodo city center view, Wolaita
context_page_description: Sodo or Wolaita Sodo is a town and separate woreda in south-central Ethiopia. The administrative center of the Wolaita Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 6°54′N 37°45′E with an elevation between 1,600 and 2,100 metres above sea level. It was part of the former Sodo woreda which included Sodo Zuria which completely surrounds it.
  Sodo is served by an airport. A 166-kilometre road connecting Sodo with Chida, whose construction had started in 1994, was completed by early 1999. Featuring an 80-metre Bailey bridge across the Omo river and five other bridges, this road cost 255 million Birr, and reduced the distance between the Regional capital at Awassa and Mizan Teferi to 400 kilometres. According to the SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, as of 2003 Sodo's amenities include digital and mobile telephone access, postal service, 24-hour electrical service, two banks, and a hospital. Sodo is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Sodo-Hosaena.
  Currently, Sodo is known for being center of major health and education institutions in Ethiopia.
context_section_description: Based on the 2018 Population Projection by the CSA, this town has a total population of 254,294, of whom 125,855 are men and 128,439 are women. This makes Wolaita Sodo the second most populous city in South Region after  Awassa. The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, with 54.61% of the population reporting that belief, 38.43% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, 4.76% were Muslim, and 1.28% were Catholic.
  The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 36,287 of whom 18,863 were men and 17,424 were women.
caption: Center of Sodo, Distance View
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