Mbinga | |
|---|---|
 location in Ruvuma Region | |
| Country |  Tanzania |
| Region | Ruvuma Region |
Mbinga District[1] 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.
According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Mbinga District was 404,799.[2] 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.[3]
- ^ Mbinga District (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ "2002 Population and Housing Census General Report: Ruvuma: Mginga". Archived from the original on 20 March 2004.
- ^ Nhira, Calvin; Mapiki, Alfred (2008). Land and Water Management in Southern Africa: Towards Sustainable Agriculture. African Books Collective. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-7983-0214-2.