Mara Region

Mara Region
Mkoa wa Mara (Swahili)
Region
From top to bottom:
Ballooning over the Serengeti in Mara, crocodile on the Mara River and Musoma city view.
Nickname(s): 
The land of the Serengeti; Nyerere's homeland
Location in Tanzania
Location in Tanzania
Coordinates: 1°46′31.44″S 34°9′11.52″E / 1.7754000°S 34.1532000°E / -1.7754000; 34.1532000
Country Tanzania
Zonelake
CapitalMusoma
Government
 • Regional CommissionerDr. Rapahel Chegeni (CCM)
Area
 • Total21,760 km2 (8,400 sq mi)
 • Rank7th of 31
Population
 (2022)
 • Total2,372,015
 • Rank10th of 31
 • Density110/km2 (280/sq mi)
DemonymMaran
Ethnic groups
 • SettlerSwahili, Luo & Sukuma
 • NativeZanaki, Kurya, Ngurimi, Ikoma, Ikizu, Kwaya, Jita, Suba, Kerewe, Sizaki & Simbiti
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
Postcode
31xxx
Area code028
ISO 3166 codeTZ-13 [1]
HDI (2021)0.541[2]
low · 15th of 25
WebsiteOfficial website
Symbols of Tanzania
Bird
Secretary bird
Butterfly
Yellow pansy
Fish
[[Haplochromis nyererei ]]
Mammal
Cheetah
Tree
Whistling thorn
Mineral
Gold
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Mara Region (Mkoa wa Mara in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of 21,760 km2 (8,400 sq mi).[3] The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El Salvador.[4] The neighboring regions are Mwanza Region and Simiyu Region (to the south), Arusha Region (to the southeast), and Kagera Region (across Lake Victoria). The Mara Region borders Kenya (to the northeast).The regional capital is the municipality of Musoma. Mara Region is known for being the home of Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and also the birth place of Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere. Under British colonial occupation, the Mara Region was a district called the Lake Province, which became the Lake Region after independence in 1961.[5]

  1. ^ "IS0 3166". ISO. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  3. ^ "Mara Region Size".
  4. ^ 21,041 km2 (8,124 sq mi) for El Salvador at "Area size comparison". Nations Online. 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ndembwike_08 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).