Korogwe (District)

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Korogwe District
Location of the Korogwe district in Tanzania
Location of the Korogwe district in Tanzania
Basic data
Country Tanzania
region tanga
surface 3756 km²
Residents 310,346 (2012)
density 83 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 TZ-25

Coordinates: 5 ° 10 ′  S , 38 ° 27 ′  E

Korogwe is a district in the Tanga region in northeastern Tanzania with the administration in the city of the same name Korogwe . The district is bordered by the Lushoto District to the north, the Mkinga and Muheza districts to the east, the Handeni district to the south and the Manyara and Kilimanjaro regions to the west .

Road to Korogwe with the Usambara Mountains.

geography

Korogwe has an area of ​​3756 square kilometers and around 300,000 inhabitants (as of 2012). The country can be divided into three zones:

  • Usambara Mountains : A quarter of the district area is in the Western Usambara Mountains at an altitude of 900 to 1500 meters above sea level.
  • Humid lowlands: Around a third of the area is hot and humid and is 600 to 800 meters high.
  • Semi-arid zone: The country is 400 to 700 meters high and it rains less than 600 millimeters a year.

The drainage takes place over the river Pangani and its tributaries Mkomazi and Luengera , as well as in the northeast over the river Umba in the Indian Ocean . The climate depends on the location, mostly a tropical savanna climate, Aw according to the effective climate classification or a hot semi-arid climate BSh.

history

The city council was founded in 2005.

Location of the Korogwe district in the Tanga region.

Administrative division

Korogwe has a District council (DC) and a Town council (TC). The area of ​​the district council is divided into four divisions and 20 parishes (wards), that of the city council into eight parishes.

Korogwe Land

  • Mashewa
  • Kizara
  • Magoma
  • Kerenge
  • Kwagunda
  • Mnyuzi
  • Vugiri
  • Dindira
  • Bungu
  • Lutindi
  • Makuyuni
  • Chekelei
  • Mombo
  • Mkalamo
  • Mazinde
  • Mkomazi
  • Kwashemshi
  • Mpale
  • Mswaha
  • Magamba Kwalukonge

Korogwe town

  • Ngombezi
  • Mtonga
  • Magunga
  • Kwamndolwa
  • Old Korogwe
  • Manundu
  • Kiloles
  • Kwamsisi

population

The largest ethnic group in the district are the Sambaa , otherwise the population is very heterogeneous. The district's population increased from 218,849 in 1988 to 260,238 in the 2002 census and further to 310,346 in 2012.

Council Residents

1988

Residents

2002

Residents

2012

Land Council (DC) 218,849 207.381 242.038
City Council (TC) - 52,857 68,308
total 218,849 260.238 310.346

Two thirds of those over five spoke Swahili. Less than ten percent spoke English and Swahili in the countryside and over twenty percent in the city (as of 2012).

country
city

Facilities and services

  • Education: There are 138 primary schools and 27 secondary schools in the Land Council, 29 primary schools and nine secondary schools in the City Council.
  • Health: A hospital, three health centers and 48 pharmacies in the Land Council and a hospital, a health center and eight pharmacies in the City Council provide medical care for the population.

Economy and Infrastructure

  • Agriculture: Agriculture is the most important branch of the economy, which feeds around 90 percent of the rural population. The majority are small farmers who mainly grow maize, cassava and rice. Of the 52,000 households in the Land Council, more than half kept pets, and in the City Council almost a third had pets. Mainly chickens, goats and cattle were kept (as of 2012).
  • Mining: Zircon, bauxite, amethyst and ruby ​​are found in the district, but only mined on a small scale.
  • Railway: The Usambara Railway, operated by Tanzania Railways and reopened in 2019, runs from the port city of Tanga through Korogwe to Moshi and Arusha .
  • Roads: The important national road from Tanga to Dar es Salaam runs through the south of the district . From this the paved national road branches off north to Moshi and Arusha. This runs through the cities of Korogwe and Mombo.

politics

In Korogwe, a district council and a town council are elected every five years. The chairman of the district council is Charles Francis Mweta, of the city council Hillary H. Ngonyani (as of 2020).

St. Michaels Church in Korogwe.

Others

  • Mkomazi National Park : The district has a share in this 3245 square kilometer national park. It was established as a reserve in 1951 and declared a national park in 1989. In addition to giraffes, oryx, gerenuk, hartebeest, kudu, eland, impala, Grant's gazelles, elephants, buffalos, lions, leopards and cheetahs, the park is home to over 400 species of birds.
  • Church: The Anglican Church has a bishopric in Korogwe.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tanga Region Socio-Economic Profile. (PDF) April 1997, pp. 3–4 , accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Tanzania Regional Profiles, 05 Tanga Regional Profile. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, p. 16 , accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Tanga Region Investment Profiles. (PDF) pp. 10–11 , accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Maps for the world, Map 500k - xb37-1. Retrieved June 7, 2020 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Korogwe climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Korogwe weather averages - Climate-Data.org. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Climate Tanga: Temperature, climate graph, Climate table for Tanga - Climate-Data.org. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ Korogwe TC | History. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Historia | Korogwe District Council. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 2012 Population and Housing Census. (PDF) National Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance, March 2013, pp. 46, 53 , accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  10. ^ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 05 Tanga Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, p. 75 , accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Statistics DC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b Takwimu | Statistics TC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Swahili).
  13. ↑ Kilimo | Agriculture DC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Kilimo | Agriculture TC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Swahili).
  15. ^ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 05 Tanga Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, pp. 133, 136 , accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  16. ^ Tanga Region, Socio-Economic Profile. (PDF) p. 76 , accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  17. ^ Daily News, Tanga-Moshi Railway relaunched. October 31, 2019, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  18. ^ Trunk and Regional Roads Network. March 2018, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Korogwe Rural. GoogleMaps, accessed June 8, 2020 (de-US).
  20. ↑ Siegfried Schröder and Elke Kuhne: Elections in Tanzania 2015. (PDF) Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, November 9, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Mwanzo | Home Korogwe DC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Mwanzo | Home Korogwe TC. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Swahili).
  23. ↑ Tanzania in Figures 2018. (PDF) National Bureau of Statistics, June 2019, p. 8 , accessed June 8, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Mkomazi | National Park Tanzania. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (American English).
  25. ↑ The Best The Anglican Church Of Tanzanias Offering Tanga in Korogwe, Tanzania Rated By Past Clients. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .