Bende people

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The Bende are an ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania. In 1999 the Bende population was estimated to number 27,000. [1]

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References

  1. "Bende". Ethnologue . SIL International . Retrieved 2007-07-07.

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