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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Central
- Named after
- Dodoma
- Capital
- Dodoma
- Districts
- List Dodoma District Bahi District Chamwino District Chemba District Kondoa District Kongwa District Mpwapwa District
- Regional commissioner
- Rosemary Staki Senyamule
- Total
- 41,311 km (15,950 sq mi)
- Rank
- 8th of 31
- Highest elevation lugunga
- 2,352 m (7,717 ft)
- Density
- 74.693/km (193.45/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Dodoman
- Settler
- Swahili
- Native
- Gogo , Rangi , Sandawe & Burungi
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 41xxx
- Area code
- 026
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-03
- Hdi 2021
- 0.497 , low · 23rd of 25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tanzania
- Named after
- Dodoma
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Tanzania
- Capital
- Dodoma
- Population
- 3085625
- Area
- 41311.0
- Image
- Drought in the Kongwa District, Dodoma Region, Tanzania, East Africa.jpg
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- language used
- Rangi
- topic's main category
- Category:Dodoma Region
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- Dodoma Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Dodoma Region (Mkoa wa Dodoma in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The regional capital is the city of Dodoma, which is also the capital of Tanzania. Dodoma region is located in central Tanzania, bordered by Singida region to the west, Manyara region to the north, Iringa region to the south, and Morogoro region to the east. Dodoma hosts the National Assembly of Tanzania or Bunge. Dodoma region also hosts one of the largest universities in Tanzania, the University of Dodoma. The region is the home of the Tanzanian wine industry, which is the second largest wine industry on the continent after South Africa. According to the 2022 national census, the region had a population of 3,085,625; in the 2012 national census, the population was 2,083,588.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dodoma Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.