Kagera

Kagera is certainly one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The vicinity is placed within the northwestern corner of Tanzania on the western shore of Lake Victoria. The place neighbors Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi and lies throughout the lake from Kenya. The region was referred to as West Lake earlier than June 1979. The regional capital is the town of Bukoba. in step with the 2012 country wide census, the vicinity had a population of two,458,023, which became decrease than the pre-census projection of 2,763,329. For 2002-2012, the location's three.2 percentage common annual population growth price was tied for the third highest in the country.

It became also the 9th-most densely populated place, with 97 human beings per square kilometer. On September tenth 2016, the location turned into struck through an earthquake measuring 5.nine on the moment value scale. It turned into the most important earthquake to had been recorded in Tanzania. Its attempted annexation by means of Uganda in 1978 triggered the Uganda–Tanzania warfare which culminated within the overthrow of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin on April eleven, 1979, at the Fall of Kampala.