Kipumbwi

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Kipumbwi is a municipality in the Pangani district on the coast of the Tanga region of Tanzania.

The zip code is 21311. At the 2012 census, the parish had 5,333 inhabitants.

Kipumbwi is one of the older places on the coast. In the 19th century, it was known in Mombasa as the southern end of the Mrima Coast .

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  1. ↑ National Bureau of Statistics: 2012 Population and Housing Census. In: Population Distribution. Ministry of Finance, March 2013, p. 49 , accessed December 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ludwig Krapf wrote in his Suahelilexikon : "MRIMA (ulio tini (chini) ya milima, ni Mrima, si kisiwa), a tract of country beginning with Oassi (Wasini) and stretching as far as the Pangani River and Kipumbui (Kipumbwi) "

Coordinates: 5 ° 38 '  S , 38 ° 54'  E