Zomi Inhabitat Area

Zoland

It was not the people who derived their name ZO from the high altitude of their abode, but on the contrary it was the high lands and especially the farm lands there, called ‘Zo Lo’ which derived their name from the Zo people who cultivated the farms’
Mizoram : New Magazine, Winter ISsue, No. 2 (1982), p.18, as quoted in Mangkhosat Kipgen, Christianity and Mizo Culture, MTC (1996), p.20