Sumbawanga (District)

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Sumbawanga District
Sumbawanga (District) (Tanzania)
Sumbawanga
Sumbawanga
Sumbawanga (District) (Tanzania)
Basic data
Country Tanzania
region Rukwa
surface 10,200 km²
Residents 515,639 (2012)
density 51 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 TZ-20

Coordinates: 8 ° 5 ′  S , 31 ° 21 ′  E

Sumbawanga is one of the three districts of the Rukwa region in western Tanzania , the administrative center is in the city of the same name, Sumbawanga . The district borders on the Katavi region to the north and east, the Mbeya region in the southeast, the Kalambo district in the southwest and the Nkasi district in the west .

Surroundings of the city of Sumbawanga.

geography

Sumbawanga has a size of 10,200 square kilometers and around half a million inhabitants (as of 2012). Topologically, the district consists of a narrow coastal strip on the Rukwasee and the southern part on the Ufipa plateau. The Rukwasee in the east lies at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level. From here the land rises steeply to over 2000 meters. The area is drained into the Rukwasee, the largest river is the Mambo, which forms the southeast border. The climate is mostly moderately warm, Cwb according to the effective climate classification . The precipitation of around 1000 millimeters per year falls mostly in the months of November to April, from June to September it hardly rains. The average temperature is 19 degrees Celsius.

history

The district was established in 1984.

Administrative division

In Sumbawanga there are two constituencies, Sumbawanga Country (DC) and Sumbawanga City (TC), which consist of a total of 30 parishes (wards):

Sumbawanga land

  • Mfinga
  • Muze
  • Mtowisa
  • Milepa
  • Sandulula
  • Kaengesa
  • Mpui
  • Msanda Muungano
  • Ilemba
  • Kipeta
  • Kaoze
  • Miangalua
  • Kalambanzite
  • Lusaka
  • Laela

Sumbawanga city

  • Malangali
  • Mazwi
  • Izia
  • Katandala
  • Old Sumbawanga
  • Kizwite
  • Ntendo
  • Senga
  • Mollo
  • Pito
  • Milanzi
  • Matanga
  • Kasense
  • Majenge
  • Chanji

population

The population of Sumbawanga is growing rapidly. In rural areas, the annual growth rate between 2002 and 2012 was more than six percent, which corresponds to a doubling time of eleven years.

Residents
Council 2002 2012
District council 159,671 305,846
Town council 146,842 209.793

In 2012, 85 percent of those over 15 were able to read and write in the city and 61 percent in the country.

Girl on the way to school.

Facilities and services

  • Education: Primary schools, especially in rural areas, suffer from a lack of teachers, too few classrooms and a lack of equipment. There are 63 primary schools in the city, 55 of which are state-run and eight are privately run, and 17 secondary schools, all of which are state-run.
  • Health: There are two hospitals, three health centers and 31 pharmacies in the city. German ophthalmologists have been supporting local doctors in the church's Atiman Hospital since 2017. During the fourth rescue mission in 2019, ten doctors examined 1,000 patients and performed 200 eye operations.

Economy and Infrastructure

  • Agriculture: Ninety percent of the population in rural areas makes a living from agriculture. The main crops are corn, rice, beans, peanuts, millet, cassava and sunflowers. Of the 100,000 households in the district, almost half kept livestock in 2012. Poultry, cattle and goats were kept in the countryside, and mostly chickens in the city.
  • Trade and industry: There are no large industries in the district, of the almost 400 small businesses in 2016, a third were in the textile industry, followed by mills, carpenters and locksmiths.
  • Commerce and Services: Most of the operations are small, privately owned businesses. The Mandela shopping center, which burned down in 2016, will be rebuilt in 2020.
  • Roads: The most important road connections in the district are the national road T9, which leads from Tunduma in the southeast to Mpanda in the north, and the national road T20 which branches off in the city of Sumbawanga to the south to Zambia .
Fishermen on Rukwasee.

Attractions

  • Rukwasee: The district has a share of the 2,600 square kilometer large runoffless Rukwasee, which has an average depth of only three meters.

politics

A District council and a Town council are elected every 5 years in the district. In 2019, Kalolo Ntila on the District Council and Justin Malisawa on the City Council were elected chairmen.Template: future / in 4 years

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tanzania Regional Profiles, 15 Rukwa Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, p. 15 , accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Maps for the World, Map 500k - xb36-3, Map 500k - xc36-1. Russian Army Maps, accessed April 23, 2020 (Russian).
  3. ↑ a b c History | Sumbawanga District Council. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (Swahili).
  4. ↑ a b History | SUMBAWANGA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sumbawanga climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Sumbawanga water temperature - Climate-Data.org. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 2012 Population and Housing Census. (PDF) National Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance, March 2013, pp. 142, 144 , accessed April 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 15 Rukwa Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, p. 71 , accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Rolling Strategic Plan. (PDF) Sumbawanga District Council, December 2015, p. 32 , accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Takwimu | Statistics. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Health | SUMBAWANGA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  11. ^ Fourth aid mission in Sumbawanga | 1stQ. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 15 Rukwa Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, 2016, pp. 125, 128 , accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Industries | SUMBAWANGA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Trade | SUMBAWANGA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Patricia Ilolo: Construction of market in Sumbawanga Tanzania to cost nearly US $ 1m. March 28, 2020, accessed April 23, 2020 (American English).
  16. ^ Tanzania Trunk Road Network. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Lake Rukwa, Tanzania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Kalolo Ntila. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (English).
  19. ↑ Justin Malisawa. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (English).
  20. ↑ Siegfried Schröder and Elke Kuhne: Elections in Tanzania 2015. (PDF) Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, November 9, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on April 24, 2020 .