Mbinga District is one of the five districts of the Ruvuma Region of Tanzania . It is bordered to the north by the Njombe Region , to the east by Songea Rural District and Songea Urban District , to the south by Mozambique and to the west by Lake Nyasa . The district is partly home to the Liparamba Game Reserve . Notable people are Oscar Kambona, former minister of foreign affairs.
4-613: According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Mbinga District was 404,799. Mbinga District covers an area of 11,396 square kilometres, about 18 percent of the land area of the Ruvuma Region and about 1% of the land mass of Tanzania. The Mbinga District is administratively divided into 37 wards : Kilindi 10°50′S 34°50′E / 10.833°S 34.833°E / -10.833; 34.833 This Ruvuma Region location article
8-427: A District Council . And there are three types of urban districts: Town Council , Municipal Council and City Council . A division is an administrative organization for several wards. A village is the lowest government administrative structure at the community level. In an urban area, a cluster (mtaa) can include a number of streets. A ward (kata) is an administrative structure for one single town or portion of
12-917: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Administrative divisions of Tanzania#Wards The administrative divisions of Tanzania are controlled by Part I, Article 2.2 of the Constitution of Tanzania . Tanzania is divided into thirty-one regions ( mkoa in Swahili ). Each region is subdivided into districts ( wilaya in Swahili). The districts are sub-divided into divisions ( tarafa in Swahili) and further into local wards ( kata in Swahili). Wards are further subdivided for management purposes: for urban wards into streets ( mtaa in Swahili) and for rural wards into villages ( kijiji in Swahili). The villages may be further subdivided into hamlets ( kitongoji in Swahili). In 1922 under
16-475: The British Tanganyika was divided into twenty-two regions, known as "divisions": Arusha, Bagamoyo, Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Iringa, Kilwa, Kondoa-Irangi, Lindi, Mahenge, Morogoro, Moshi, Mwanza, Pangani, Rufiji, Rungwe, Songea, Tabora, Tanga, Ufipa, Ujiji, and Usambara. According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, Tanzania was divided into 169 districts. There is one type of rural district:
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