Mbozi District (Mbozi)
Mbozi District is a district in Songwe Region, Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by Chunya District, to the east by Mbeya Urban and Ileje Districts, to the south by Zambia and to the west by Rukwa Region.
According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of Mbozi District was 515,270. The district has an area of 967900 ha.
The District Commissioner of Mbozi District is D.I. Rwegasira.
Mbozi District is administratively divided into six divisions, twenty-five wards (no longer including Tunduma, which now has its own town council) and 175 villages. The wards are:
* Chilulumo
* Chitete
* Chiwezi
* Halungu
* Igamba
* Ihanda
According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of Mbozi District was 515,270. The district has an area of 967900 ha.
The District Commissioner of Mbozi District is D.I. Rwegasira.
Mbozi District is administratively divided into six divisions, twenty-five wards (no longer including Tunduma, which now has its own town council) and 175 villages. The wards are:
* Chilulumo
* Chitete
* Chiwezi
* Halungu
* Igamba
* Ihanda
Map - Mbozi District (Mbozi)
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Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania, such as 6-million-year-old Pliocene hominid fossils. The genus Australopithecus ranged across Africa between 4 and 2 million years ago, and the oldest remains of the genus Homo are found near Lake Olduvai. Following the rise of Homo erectus 1.8 million years ago, humanity spread all over the Old World, and later in the New World and Australia under the species Homo sapiens. H. sapiens also overtook Africa and absorbed the older species of humanity. Later in the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included Southern Cushitic speakers who moved south from present-day Ethiopia; Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago; and the Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, who originated from the present-day South Sudan–Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago. These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas. They subsequently migrated across the rest of Tanzania between 2,300 and 1,700 years ago.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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TZS | Tanzanian shilling | Sh | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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AR | Arabic language |
EN | English language |