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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Southern Highlands
- Capital
- Songea
- Districts
- List Mbinga District Namtumbo District Songea Urban District Songea Rural District Tunduru District Nyasa District
- Regional commissioner
- Laban Elias Thomas ( CCM )
- Total
- 63,669 km (24,583 sq mi)
- Land
- 33,825 km (13,060 sq mi)
- Water
- 29,844 km (11,523 sq mi) 46.8%
- Rank
- 4th of 31
- Highest elevation lukukura
- 1,769 m (5,804 ft)
- Density
- 54.658/km (141.56/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Ruvuman
- Settler
- Swahili
- Native
- Ngoni , Matengo , Magwangara, Manda , Ndendeule , Ngindo & Yao
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 57xxx
- Area code
- 025
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-21
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruvuma Region (Mkoa wa Ruvuma in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers a land area of 63,669 km (24,583 sq mi), comparable in size to the nation state of Latvia. The region is also bordered to the north by the Morogoro Region, to the northeast by the Lindi Region, to the east by the Mtwara Region, the west by Lake Nyasa with Malawi and to the northwest by the Njombe Region. The regional capital is the municipality of Songea.
According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 1,376,891, which was lower than the pre-census projection of 1,449,830. For 2002–2012, the region's 2.1 percent average annual population growth rate was the twentieth highest in the country. It was also the 28th most densely populated region with 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruvuma Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.