Mbinga District

Mbinga District[1] is one of the five districts of the Ruvuma Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Njombe Region, to the east by Songea Rural District and Songea Urban District, to the south by Mozambique and to the west by Lake Nyasa.

According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Mbinga District was 404,799.[2] Mbinga District covers an area of 11,396 square kilometres, about 18 percent of the land area of the Ruvuma Region and about 1% of the land mass of Tanzania.[3]

Wards

The Mbinga District is administratively divided into 37 wards:[2]

Chiwanda
Kigonsera
Kihagara
Kihangi Mahuka
Kilimani[4]
Kilosa
Kingerikiti
Kitura
Langiro
Liparamba
Lipingo
Linda
Litembo

Lituhi
Litumbandyosi
Liuli[5]
Maguu
Matiri
Mbaha
Mbamba Bay[6]
Mbangamao
Mbinga Urban
Mbuji
Mikalanga
Mkumbi
Mpapa

Mpepai
Mtipwili
Myangayanga
Ndongosi
Ngima
Ngumbo
Nyoni
Ruanda
Tingi
Ukata
Utiri

Kilindi

References

Mbinga District (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
"2002 Population and Housing Census General Report: Ruvuma: Mginga". Archived from the original on 20 March 2004.
Nhira, Calvin, Mapiki, Alfred (2008). Land and Water Management in Southern Africa: Towards Sustainable Agriculture. African Books Collective. p. 260. ISBN 0-7983-0214-3.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
The English meaning of the word "kilimani" is on the hill.
In Liuli ward the lakeshore settlement of Liuli was the site of the first naval action of World War I. It was also the mission centre of Ruvuma during the time of William Percival Johnson.
Mbamba Bay is the starting point of the ferry to Itungu in the north.

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[1] Mbinga District (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

[Census-2002-Mbinga-2] "2002 Population and Housing Census General Report: Ruvuma: Mginga". Archived from the original on 20 March 2004.

[3] Nhira, Calvin, Mapiki, Alfred (2008). Land and Water Management in Southern Africa: Towards Sustainable Agriculture. African Books Collective. p. 260. ISBN 0-7983-0214-3.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[4] The English meaning of the word "kilimani" is on the hill.

[5] In Liuli ward the lakeshore settlement of Liuli was the site of the first naval action of World War I. It was also the mission centre of Ruvuma during the time of William Percival Johnson.

[6] Mbamba Bay is the starting point of the ferry to Itungu in the north.