sentences:  98.98% of the population said they were Muslim.This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Awlihan and Gaadsan one of subdivisions of the Somali people.The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 80,797, of whom 46,319 were men and 34,478 were women; 5,124 or 6.34% of its population were urban dwellers.