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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Western
- Named after
- Kigoma
- Capital
- Kigoma
- Districts
- List Kigoma-Ujiji District Kasulu District Kasulu Town Council Buhigwe District Kakonko District Kibondo District Uvinza District Kigoma District
- Regional commissioner
- Thobias Andengenye
- Total
- 37,040 km (14,300 sq mi)
- Rank
- 8th of 31
- Highest elevation kicherere
- 1,917 m (6,289 ft)
- Density
- 66.71/km (172.8/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Kigoman
- Settler
- Swahili , Arab , Congolese & Burundians
- Native
- Ha , Vinza , Tongwe , Jiji & Holoholo
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 47xxx
- Area code
- 028
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-05
- Hdi 2021
- 0.520 , low · 19th of 25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tanzania
- Named after
- Kigoma
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Tanzania
- Capital
- Kigoma
- Population
- 2470967
- Area
- 37040.0
- Shares border with
- Cankuzo Province
- Image
- Kigoma Seeufer.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Kigoma Region (Mkoa wa Kigoma in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions, with the city of Kigoma as the regional capital. Kigoma Region borders Kagera Region, Geita Region, Katavi Region, Tabora Region, DRC and Burundi According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 2,127,930, which was higher than the pre-census projection of 1,971,332. For 2002–2012, the region's 2.4 percent average annual population growth rate was tied for the fourteenth highest in the country. It was also the sixteenth most densely populated region with 57 people per square kilometer. With a size of 45,066 square kilometres (17,400 mi), the region is slightly smaller than Estonia (45,227 square kilometres (17,462 mi)).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kigoma Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.