Sengerema District

Sengerema District
District

Sengerema location within Mwanza Region. Trunk roads in green.
Coordinates: 02°20′S 032°30′E / 2.333°S 32.500°E / -2.333; 32.500Coordinates: 02°20′S 032°30′E / 2.333°S 32.500°E / -2.333; 32.500
Country Tanzania
Region Mwanza Region
UFI -2573399

Sengerema District[1] is one of seven districts in the Mwanza Region of Tanzania, East Africa. It is bordered to the north and east by Lake Victoria, to the south by Geita Region and to the southeast by the Misungwi District.

As of 2002, the population of Sengerema District was 501,915.[2] The district's population has grown to 663,034 in 2012. [3]

Administrative subdivisions

Constituencies

For parliamentary elections, Tanzania is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections Sengerema District had two constituencies:[4]

Divisions

Sengerema District is administratively divided into divisions.

Wards

As of 2002, Sengerema District was administratively divided into twenty-five wards.[2] As of 2012, it was divided into thirty-four wards, after some reorganization.[5]

2002 wards

  • Bupandwam'hela
  • Busisi
  • Buyagu
  • Buzilasoga
  • Chifunfu
  • Igalula
  • Kafunzo
  • Kagunga
  • Kalebezo
  • Kasungamile
  • Katunguru
  • Katwe
  • Kazunzu
  • Lugata
  • Maisome
  • Nyakaliro
  • Nyakasasa
  • Nyakasungwa
  • Nyamatongo
  • Nyamazugo
  • Nyanzenda
  • Nyehunge
  • Sengerema
  • Sima
  • Tabaruka

2012 wards

  • Bulyaheke
  • Bupandwa
  • Busisi
  • Buyagu
  • Buzilasoga
  • Chifunfu
  • Ibisabageni
  • Igalula
  • Igulumuki
  • Irenza shuleni
  • Kafunzo
  • Kagunga
  • Kalebezo
  • Kasenyi
  • Kasungamile
  • Katunguru
  • Katwe
  • Kazunzu
  • Kishinda
  • Lugata
  • Maisome
  • Mwabaluhi
  • Nyakaliro
  • Nyakasasa
  • Nyakasungwa
  • Nyamatongo
  • Nyamazugo
  • Nyampande
  • Nyampulukano
  • Nyanzenda
  • Nyatukara
  • Nyehunge
  • Sima
  • Tabaruka

Notes

  1. ↑ Sengerema District (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. 1 2 "2002 Population and Housing Census: General Report: Mwanza: Sengerema". Archived from the original on 20 March 2004.
  3. ↑ "Census 2012". National Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Organisations located in Sengerema District - Tanzania". African Development Information.
  5. ↑ "Postcodes Mwanza Region 33000" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA). 2012.
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