Unguja Kaskazini

Unguja Kaskazini
Basic data
Country	Tanzania
Capital	Mkokotoni
surface	470 km²
Residents	187,455 (2012 census)
density	399 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	TZ-07

Coordinates: 5 ° 53 ′  S , 39 ° 19 ′  E

Unguja Kaskazini (English Zanzibar North , German Sansibar-Nord or Unguja-Nord ) is an administrative region of Tanzania that includes the northern part of Zanzibar's main island Unguja and the island of Tumbatu . It borders in the south on the regions Unguja Kusini and Unguja Mjini Magharibi , otherwise it is surrounded by the Indian Ocean .

Beach at Matemwe

geography

The region has a size of 470 square kilometers and 187,455 inhabitants (as of 2012). Their capital is Mkokotoni .

The region has largely a tropical monsoon climate, Am according to the effective climate classification , a small part also has a tropical rainforest climate (Af). There is precipitation all year round, with an annual average of 1,600 millimeters of rain. The average temperature is 27.5 Gard Celsius.

Climate table Mkokotoni Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 33.7 34.4 34.4 32.2 31.1 30.6 29.9 30.2 31.1 32 32.8 33.3 O 32.1 Min. Temperature (° C) 24.2 24.2 24.1 24.1 23.5 22.5 21.8 21.1 20.9 21.6 22.7 23.8 O 22.9 Temperature (° C) 28.9 29.3 29.2 28.1 27.3 26.5 25.8 25.6 26th 26.8 27.7 28.5 O 27.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 64 52 172 368 309 90 66 73 61 77 133 122 Σ 1,587 Source: climate-data.org

history

In 1900 the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba were a British protectorate . In 1963 Zanzibar became independent, one year later the Republic of Tanzania was founded from the two states Tanganyika and Zanzibar. In 1967 the region was created as Zanzibar Nord and in 2012 the Swahili name Kaskazini Unguja was given.

Administrative division

The region is divided into two districts:

District	Residents 1988	Residents 2002	Residents 2012	Number of wards
Kaskazini A.	59,990	84.147	105,780	10
Kaskazini B	36,999	52,492	81,675	8th

population

The population increased from 96,989 in 1988 to 136,639 in 2002 and further to 187,455 in 2012. This means that the annual growth rate has increased from 2.4 percent to 3.2 percent. The total population shows the high proportion of young people typical of many African regions. If one only looks at the urban population, the bulge in the twenty to twenty-nine year olds indicates immigration in this age group.

Facilities and services

education

In 2016 there were 47 pre-schools, 46 elementary schools and 36 secondary schools in the region:

District	Preschools	Elementary schools	Further training
Kaskazini A.	28	26th	24
Kaskazini B	19th	20th	12

health

There are 31 health centers for the medical care of the population, 16 in Kaskazini A and 15 in Kaskazini B (as of 2016). In 2012, one percent of the population on the island of Zanzibar had AIDS ; in the risk groups of drug addicts, female prostitutes and male homosexuals, it was two percent.

water

In 2014/2015, 80.5 percent of the population of Kaskazini Unguja had access to clean and safe water. In the district of Kaskazini A twelve percent were connected to a water pipe, in the district of Kaskazini B it was 26 percent. More than ninety percent of households had safe, clean water less than a kilometer away. The following table shows the number of households that had safe and clean water within one kilometer:

District	2004/2005	2014/2015
Kaskazini A.	64.7	90.7
Kaskazini B	85.1	96.3

Economy and Infrastructure Poverty is high in the region, the index of multidimensional poverty is 0.281. A quarter of the population lives in severe poverty, another quarter is at risk of poverty (as of 2013). About half of the 127,000 over ten-year-olds were employed, 17 percent worked at home, 28 percent were pupils and students, the rest were unemployed (6 percent) or unable to work (3 percent). Of the employees, more than 50 percent worked in their own farms, a quarter self-employed in other areas and 16 percent were employees (as of 2012).

Agriculture In 2016, two hundred and fifty holdings were engaged in agriculture, two thirds in arable farming and one third in cattle breeding. The main crops were rice, sweet potatoes, cassava, millet, bananas, fruits and vegetables. In 2012, the majority of chickens were kept, but the 13,000 households with farm animals also had 25,000 cattle and 10,000 goats. fishing Eighteen percent of the population of District Kaskazini A and ten percent of Kaskazini B live from fishing (as of 2010). Manufacturing sector In 2016 there were 367 companies producing goods in the region. Of these, 137 were engaged in furniture production and 60 in the manufacture of clothing.

Service sector

There were 982 businesses in the service sector in the region (as of 2016).

tourism

Beach at Nungwi

The tourism sector only plays a subordinate role in the region, around one tenth of a percent of the population works in the tourism sector (as of 2010).

Web links

• Unguja Kaskazini Regional Profile

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Bureau of Statistics & Office of Chief Government Statistician: Basic Demographic and Socio-Economic Profile, Tanzania Zanzibar . Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar 2014, on www.tanzania.go.tz, PDF document p. 52 (English)
2. ^ Tanzania Regions. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
3. ^ Mkokotoni climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Mkokotoni water temperature - Climate-Data.org. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Zanzibar | Geography, History, & Map. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
5. ^ Tanzania Regions. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
6. ^ Kaskazini A, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, pp. 2, 5 , accessed on December 30, 2019 . 
7. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, pp. 2, 5 , accessed on December 30, 2019 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} Tanzania Regional Profiles, 51. Kaskazini Unguja Regional Profile. (pdf) The United Republic of Tanzania, pp. 14-19 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
9. ^ Kaskazini A, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, p. 23 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
10. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, p. 19 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
11. ^ Kaskazini A, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, pp. 51, 54 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
12. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, p. 37 , accessed on December 30, 2019 . 
13. ^ Kaskazini A, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, pp. 37–38 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
14. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, pp. 29–31 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Flora Kessy, Ms. Mashavu Omar: STATUS AND PROGRESS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, Vision 2020. (pdf) 2014, p. 7 , accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 51. Kaskazini Unguja Regional Profile. (pdf) The United Republic of Tanzania, pp. 89-90 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Census of Establishments 2016, Statistical Report. March 2017, p. 98 , accessed December 31, 2019 . 
18. ^ Kaskazini A, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, p. 11 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
19. ^ Kaskazini B, District Profile. (pdf) June 2017, p. 10 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Tanzania Regional Profiles, 51. Kaskazini Unguja Regional Profile. (pdf) The United Republic of Tanzania, pp. 123-124 , accessed December 30, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Dr. Flora Kessy, Ms. Mashavu Omar: STATUS AND PROGRESS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, Vision 2020. (pdf) 2014, p. 26 , accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Census of Establishments 2016, Statistical Report. March 2017, p. 85 , accessed December 31, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Census of Establishments 2016, Statistical Report. March 2017, pp. 90–91 , accessed on December 31, 2019 .