Kwimba
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Mwanza Region
Mwanza Region is one of the regions of Tanzania. Its capital is Mwanza, which is also Tanzania's second city.The neighbouring regions are Kagera to the west, Shinyanga to the south, and Mara to the east...
of Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
. It is bordered to the West by the Misungwi District and to the North by the Magu District. Kwimba's population is 316,180 (2002 TZ National Census). The district seat is at Ngudu. http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/census/districts/kwimba.htm
The majority of the residents of Kwimba are Wasukuma from the Sukuma tribe and speak Sukuma
Sukuma
The Sukuma is the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, with an estimated 5.5 million members representing about 16 percent of the country's total population. Sukuma means "north" and refers to "people of the north"...
along with Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
. Most of the residents are engaged in the subsistence farming of rice, sweet potatoes, cassava, millet or maize.
Wards
The Kwimba District is subdivided administratively into 5 divisions, 25 wards, and 111 villages. The following is a list of Kwimba's wards:- Bungulwa
- Bupamwa
- Fukalo
- Hungumalwa
- Igongwa
- Iseni
- Kikubuji
- Lyoma
- Maligisu
- Malya
- MantareMantareMantare is one of 18 wards of the Kwimba District of the Mwanza Region in Tanzania. It is located at 33° 13' E, 2° 42' S. Like many of its neighboring wards, Mantare is inhabited by the Wasukuma people who speak Kisukuma and Swahili, the national language of Tanzania.The landscape is quite rural,...
- Mhande
- Mwabomba
- Mwagi
- Mwakilyambiti
- Mwamala
- Mwandu
- Mwang'halanga
- Ng'hundi
- Ngudu
- Ngula
- Nyambiti
- Nyamilama
- SumveSumveSumve, Tanzania is located in the Kwimba District of the Mwanza Region, at . Sumve's residents are predominantly from the Wasukuma tribe, the largest in Tanzania, but some of Sumve's institutions employ Wahaya, Wajita, Wakerewe, Wanyamwezi and others from neighboring tribes. Therefore, many of the...
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Livestock
The 2002 TanzaniaTanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
National Census showed the following statistics for livestock population in the Kwimba district:
- Cattle - 366,210
- Goats - 102,048
- Sheep - 77,333
- Donkeys - 4,416