Mbeya Region
is one of Tanzania’s 31 administrative regions. It is located in the country’s southwest. The regional capital is the city of Mbeya. According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 2,707,410, which was lower than the pre-census projection of 2,822,396 For 2002-2012, the region’s 2.7 percent average annual population growth rate was tied for the tenth highest in the country It was also tied for the eighteenth most densely populated region with 45 people per square kilometre.
In 2016, the town of Tunduma and the districts of Ileje, Mbozi, Momba and Songwe (created from the western part of Chunya District were split from Mbeya Region to create Songwe Region.Mbeya
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