Mbinga District

{{Short description|District of Ruvuma Region, Tanzania}} {{Infobox settlement   |name = Mbinga |settlement_type = District  |image_map = Mbinga District in Ruvuma 2022.svg |map_caption = location in Ruvuma Region  |coordinates = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Tanzania}} |subdivision_type1 = Region |subdivision_name1 = Ruvuma Region  |population_as_of = |population_total = }} '''Mbinga District'''<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA88193BE83774E0440003BA962ED3|Mbinga District (Approved)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</ref> 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.

According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Mbinga District was 404,799.<ref name="Census-2002-Mbinga">{{Cite web|title=2002 Population and Housing Census General Report: Ruvuma: Mginga|url=http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/census/districts/mbinga.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040320132449/http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/census/districts/mbinga.htm|archive-date=20 March 2004}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |author=Nhira, Calvin |author2=Mapiki, Alfred|title=Land and Water Management in Southern Africa: Towards Sustainable Agriculture|year=2008|publisher=African Books Collective|isbn=978-0-7983-0214-2|page=260|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCyzZykmJBcC&dq=Matengo&pg=PA258}}</ref>

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==Wards==

The Mbinga District is administratively divided into 37 wards:<ref name="Census-2002-Mbinga" /> {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Chiwanda * Kigonsera * Kihagara * Kihangi Mahuka * Kilimani<ref>The English meaning of the word "kilimani" is ''on the hill''.</ref> * Kilosa * Kingerikiti * Kitura * Langiro * Liparamba * Lipingo * Linda * Litembo * Lituhi * Litumbandyosi * Liuli<ref>In Liuli ward the lakeshore settlement of Liuli was the site of the first naval action of World War I. It was also the mission centre of Ruvuma during the time of William Percival Johnson.</ref> * Maguu * Matiri * Mbaha * Mbamba Bay<ref>Mbamba Bay is the starting point of the ferry to Itungu in the north.</ref> * Mbangamao * Mbinga Urban * Mbuji * Mikalanga * Mkumbi * Mpapa * Mpepai * Mtipwili * Myangayanga * Ndongosi * Ngima * Ngumbo * Nyoni * Ruanda * Tingi * Ukata * Utiri Kilindi * Mapera {{div col end}}

==Notable people== Oscar Kambona, former minister of formal affairs

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Districts of Ruvuma Region