Makandana | |
|---|---|
| Districts of Tanzania | Rungwe District |
| Leadership | legislature |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Council |
| • District Executive Director | Loema Peter Isaya |
| • MP | Saul Henry Amon |
| • Chairman | Ezekiel Mwakota |
| • Councilor | Gibson Amenye Mwampagatwa |
| Time zone | UTC+03 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03 |
Makandana is an administrative ward in Rungwe District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania. As of 2002 [update] , the ward had a total population of 14,284. [1]
Rungwe is a District in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by Mbeya Rural District, to the east by Iringa Region, to the southeast by Kyela District, to the southwest by Ileje District and to the west by Mbeya Urban District.
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.
Tanzania officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands at the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania.
