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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Coastal
- Capital
- Morogoro
- Districts
- List Gairo District Ifakara Town Kilombero District Kilosa District Malinyi District Morogoro Rural District Morogoro Municipal Mvomero District Ulanga District
- Regional commissioner
- Fatma Mwasa ( CCM )
- Total
- 70,624 km (27,268 sq mi)
- Rank
- 2nd of 31
- Highest elevation lukwangule
- 2,656 m (8,714 ft)
- Density
- 45.269/km (117.25/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Morogoran
- Settler
- Swahili , Sukuma & Maasai
- Native
- Luguru , Ngulu , kutu , Sagara , Vidunda , Kaguru , Mbunga , Ndamba , Pogoro & Ngindo
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 67xxx
- Area code
- 023
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-16
- Hdi 2021
- 0.546 , low · 12th of 25
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Morogoro Region (Mkoa wa Morogoro in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. It covers an area of 70,624 km (27,268 sq mi). and is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Ireland. Morogoro Region is bordered to the north by the Manyara Region and Tanga Region, to the east by the Pwani and Lindi Regions, to the south by the Ruvuma Region and to the west by the Iringa Njombe and Dodoma Regions. The regional capital is the municipality of Morogoro. According to the 2022 national census, the region had a population of 3,197,104.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morogoro Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.