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Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- Lake
- Region
- 15 October 1963
- Capital
- Singida
- Districts
- List Ikungi District Itigi District Iramba District Manyoni District Mkalama District Singida Rural District Singida Urban District
- Regional commissioner
- Peter Serukamba ( CCM )
- Total
- 49,340 km (19,050 sq mi)
- Land
- 48,345 km (18,666 sq mi)
- Water
- 95 km (37 sq mi)
- Rank
- 5th of 31
- Highest elevation kidagau
- 1,816 m (5,958 ft)
- Density
- 41.536/km (107.58/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Singidan
- Settler
- Swahili
- Native
- Nyaturu , Iramba , Isanzu , Datooga , Kimbu & Nyamwezi
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 43xxx
- Area code
- 026
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tanzania
- Named after
- Singida
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Tanzania
- Contains
- Singida District
- Capital
- Singida
- Population
- 2008058
- Area
- 49340.0
- Official website
- singida.go.tz
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- Category:Singida Region
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- Singida Region
- language used
- Sandawe
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Encyclopedic overview
Singida Region (Mkoa wa Singida in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. It covers a land area of 49,340 km (19,050 sq mi), comparable in size to the nation of Slovakia. The region is bordered to the north by Shinyanga Region, Simiyu Region and Arusha Region, to the northeast by Manyara Region, to the east by Dodoma Region, to the southeast by Iringa Region, to the southwest by Mbeya Region and to the west by Tabora Region. The regional capital is the municipality of Singida. According to the 2022 national census, the region had a population of 2,008,058.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Singida Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.