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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Western
- Capital
- Sumbawanga
- Districts
- List Nkasi District Kalambo District Sumbawanga Urban District Sumbawanga Rural District
- Regional commissioner
- Queen Sendiga ( CCM )
- Total
- 27,765 km (10,720 sq mi)
- Land
- 21,160 km (8,170 sq mi)
- Water
- 6,605 km (2,550 sq mi) 23.79%
- Rank
- 18th of 31
- Highest elevation malonje
- 2,350 m (7,710 ft)
- Density
- 72.80/km (188.6/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Rukwan
- Settler
- Swahili
- Native
- Fipa , Nyiha , Lyangalile , Mambwe & Lungu
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 55xxx
- Area code
- 025
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-20
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tanzania
- Named after
- Rukwa Lake
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Tanzania
- Capital
- Sumbawanga
- Population
- 1540519
- Area
- 22792.0
- Image
- Sumbawanga View.jpg
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- language used
- Mwanga
- topic's main category
- Category:Rukwa Region
- Commons category
- Rukwa Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Rukwa Region (Mkoa wa Rukwa in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions The region covers a land area of 27,765 km (10,720 sq mi), which is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Haiti. Rukwa Region is bordered to the north by Katavi Region, to the east by Songwe Region, to the south by the nation of Zambia and to the west by Lake Tanganyika, which forms a border between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The regional capital is the municipality of Sumbawanga. According to the 2022 national census, the region had a population of 1,540,519.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rukwa Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.