Rukwa

Rukwa Region is one in every of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions with a postcode number 55000 . The nearby capital is the municipality of Sumbawanga. According to the 2012 country wide census, the vicinity had a population of 1,004,539. For 2002-2012, the area's 3.2 percent average annual population boom rate become tied for the 0.33 maximum inside the country. It became also the 20 th most densely populated vicinity with forty four human beings in keeping with rectangular kilometer. The area is bordered to the north by way of the Katavi Region, to the east by way of the Mbeya Region, to the south by means of Zambia, and to the west by means of Lake Tanganyika, which forms a border among Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The region's call comes from Lake Rukwa, which harbours the most important population of crocodiles in the kingdom. It is the location of the Fipa people, who keep themselves by means of subsistence agriculture and farm animals maintaining. The Rukwa Region was hooked up in 1975 with the aid of President Julius Nyerere with the aid of taking Mpanda District from Tabora and the former unified Sumbawanga District from the Mbeya Region.