Arumeru District (
Meru District
Meru or Meru District Council is one of the seven districts councils of the Arusha Region of Tanzania.The District covers an area of . and has an max elevation of . Meru District is bordered to the north by Longido District, to the east by Siha ...
and
Arusha Rural District
Arusha District Council (also known as Arusha Rural District) is one of the seven districts of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by Longido District, to the east by Meru District, to the south by Kilimanjaro Region, and ...
) is a former
district
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in the
Arusha Region
Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census).
Located below Mount Meru (Tanzania), Mount Meru on the eastern e ...
of
Tanzania
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. It was bordered to the north, west, and southwest by
Monduli District
Monduli is one of the seven districts of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. The District covers an area of . It is bordered to the north by Longido District, to the east by Arusha Rural District, to the south by the Manyara Region and to the west b ...
, to the southeast by the city of
Arusha
Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census).
Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern bran ...
, and to the east by the
Kilimanjaro Region
Kilimanjaro Region (''Mkoa wa Kilimanjaro'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The regional capital and largest city is the municipality of Moshi. With a HDI of 0.613, Kilimajaro is one among the most developed regions ...
.
, the population of the Arumeru District was 516,814.
Administrative subdivisions
Constituencies
For parliamentary elections, Arusha Region is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections Arumeru District had two constituencies, Arumeru West (Arumeru Magharibi) Constituency and Arumeru East (Arumeru Mashariki) Constituency.
Divisions
Beginning in 2007 Arumeru District has been administered by two district councils: Arusha District Council and Meru District Council.
Arusha District Council administers three divisions, 20 wards, 75 villages, 294 hamlets and 64,339 households.
Meru District Council administers three divisions, 17 wards, 71 villages and 281 subvillages.
Wards
The Arumeru District is administratively divided into 37
wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
:
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Akheri
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Bangata
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Bwawani
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Ilkiding'a
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Kikatiti
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Kikwe
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Kimnyaki
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King'ori
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Kiranyi
Kiranyi is an administrative ward in the Arusha Rural District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania
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*
Kisongo
Kisongo is an administrative ward and small
town in the Arusha Rural District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 8,769. It is located in the outskirts of Arusha, about 7 km w ...
*
Leguruki
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Makiba
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Lemanyata
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Maji ya Chai
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Maroroni
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Mateves
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Mbuguni
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Mlangarini
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Moivo
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Moshono
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Murieti
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Musa
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Places
* Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
* Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon
* Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam Province
* Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
*Musa, Kerman, Iran
* Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaija ...
*
Mwandeti
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Nduruma
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Ngarenanyuki
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Nkoanrua
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Nkoaranga
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Nkoarisambu
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Oldonyosambu
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Oljoro
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Olkokola
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Oltroto
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Oltrumet
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Poli __NOTOC__
Poli can refer to:
Food
* ''Puran Poli'', a poli made up of wheat flour and puran (sweet cooked gram paste)
* A Marathi name for ''chapati'', a bread made up of wheat flour
Organisations
* FC Timişoara Romanian first league football c ...
*
Singisi
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Sokoni II
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Songoro
*
Usa River
Economy
The district economy is almost entirely agricultural, consisting mostly of subsistence farming and livestock raising.
Exports from the few large-scale commercial horticultural farms bring in most of the money in the district. In 2012, that economy in Arumeru District was threatened when, local landless residents forcibly occupied some of those commercial farms.
References
Districts of Arusha Region
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