The Bena are Bantu ethnolinguistic group based in the
Njombe Region
Njombe Region (''Mkoa wa Njombe'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers a land area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El Salvador. Njombe Region is bor ...
of south-central
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa 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 ...
who speak the Bantu
Bena language. In 2001, the Bena population was estimated to number 670,000.
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Clans include the Wabena of Njombe highlands and its offshoot, the Wabena of Ulanga.
See also
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Nena people
The Nena people are an African tribe first encountered in the last quarter of the 19th century in the north-east Livingstone Mountains in what is now Tanzania by two different European travellers. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson stumbled a ...
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List of ethnic groups in Tanzania
References
Ethnic groups in Tanzania
Indigenous peoples of East Africa
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