Kaskazini B (District)

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Kaskazini District B
Location of the Kaskazini B district in Tanzania
Location of the Kaskazini B district in Tanzania
Basic data
Country Tanzania
region Unguja Kaskazini
surface 215 km²
Residents 81,675 (2012)
density 380 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 TZ-07

Coordinates: 5 ° 58 ′  S , 39 ° 13 ′  E

Kaskazini B is a district in the Tanzanian region of Unguja Kaskazini . The district borders in the north on the district Kaskazini A , in the south on the regions Unguja Kusini and Unguja Mjini Magharibi , in the east and west lies the Indian Ocean .

geography

Location of the Kaskazini B district in the Unguja Kaskazini region

The landscape of the district consists of two parts, the coral beach in the east and west and the lowland, which takes up around 95 percent of the area. The climate in Kaskazini B is tropical, Aw according to the effective climate classification . The temperature is between 20 and 40 degrees Celsius. There are two rainy seasons. The first from March / April to May is called “Masika” and there is 900 to 1200 millimeters of rain, the second, called “Vuli”, lasts from September / October to December and there is 400 to 500 millimeters of rainfall.

history

The Unguja Kaskazini region with the Kaskazina A and Kaskazini B districts was created in 1967. "Kaskazini" is a Swahili word and means "north".

The beach at Mangapwani on the west coast

Administrative division

The district is divided into four constituencies (constituencies) and eight parishes (wards):

Constituency local community
Bumbwini Misufini
Mafufuni
Donge Vijibweni
Mkataleni
Kiwengwa Kiwengwa
Mbaleni
Mahonda Fujoni
Mahonda

population

Like many African areas, the district has a very youthful population, 42 percent of the inhabitants are under fifteen years of age. In 1988 there were 36,999 people in the district, 52,492 in 2002 and 81,675 in 2012. This corresponds to an annual growth rate of 4.4 percent over the past decade. During the same period, the literacy rate rose from 68 percent to 84 percent.

Facilities and services

  • Education: Kaskazini B has 19 pre-schools, 20 elementary schools and 12 secondary schools. The total of 17,388 students in 2016 taught 246 male and 428 female teachers. This corresponds to a teacher-student ratio of 1:26.
  • Health: There are 15 health centers in the district, two are privately operated and thirteen are state-run (as of 2015).
  • Water: In 2014/2015, 86 percent of households had clean drinking water in their homes. 96 percent had clean and safe water within a kilometer, 3 percent within two kilometers and 1 percent within three kilometers.
  • Electrical energy: The proportion of households with an electricity connection rose from eight percent in 2004/2005 to eighteen percent in 2014/2015.

Economy and Infrastructure

The most important branches of the economy are agriculture and trade.

  • Agriculture: The main crops are rice, sweet potatoes, cassava, yams , millet, bananas, fruits and vegetables. Around forty percent of households also kept farm animals, especially poultry and cattle (as of 2012)
  • Fishing: The coasts provide a good base for fishing, the fishing centers are Kidazini, Kiwengwa and Mangapwani. The yield increased from 345 tons in 2010 to 721 tons in 2014.
  • Trade: In 2015, 697 families were active in a trade.
  • Tourism: The beaches on the Indian Ocean are attractions for tourism. Hotel complexes were also built here.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, pp. 1–2 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Tanzania Regions. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Google Translate. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 8 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 51 Kaskazini Unguja Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, pp. 15, 66 , accessed on January 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Zanzibar in Figures 2018. (PDF) Office of the Chief Government Statistician, June 2019, p. 47 , accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  7. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, pp. 19-20 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 37 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  9. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, pp. 29, 31 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  10. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 45 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  11. ^ A b Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 9 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  12. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 10 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 51. Kaskazini Unguja Regional Profile. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, pp. 122–124 , accessed December 30, 2019 .
  14. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, pp. 15–16 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  15. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (PDF) The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, June 2017, p. 10 , accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  16. ↑ 46 hotels in Kaskazini 'B', Tanzania. Accessed January 2, 2020 .