Place:Mbeya, Tanzania

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NameMbeya
Alt namesMbeyasource: Wikipedia
TypeRegion
Coordinates8°S 33.5°E
Located inTanzania     (1963 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Chunya
Galula
Igawa
Isenyela
Itaka
Itungi Port
Kipembawe
Madibira
Makongolosi
Manda
Mbalizi
Mbeya
Mbogo
Mkulwe
Mwaya
Ngomba
Rungwe
Tukuyu
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Mbeya Region (Mkoa wa Mbeya in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. It is located in the country's southwest. The regional capital is the city of Mbeya. According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 2,707,410, which was lower than the pre-census projection of 2,822,396. For 2002-2012, the region's 2.7 percent average annual population growth rate was tied for the tenth highest in the country.[1] It was also tied for the eighteenth most densely populated region with 45 people per square kilometre.[1]

In 2016, the town of Tunduma and the districts of Ileje, Mbozi, Momba and Songwe (created from the western part of Chunya District) were split from Mbeya Region to create Songwe Region. Mbeya Region is now bordered to the northwest by Tabora Region, to the northeast by Singida Region, to the east by Iringa Region, to the south by Songwe Region and Malawi, and to the west by Songwe Region. Prior to the creation of Songwe Region, Mbeya Region covered an area of . It now covers an area of .[2]

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