Butiama District is one of the seven districts of

Mara Region Mara Region (''Mkoa wa Mara'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El Salvador. for El Salvador at The neigh ...

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 and ...

. Its administrative centre is the town of

Butiama Butiama is a town and capital of Butiama District, located in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. The town of Butiama is the birthplace of Julius Nyerere, the founding father and the first president of Tanzania. Butiama is also the homeland of th ...

Julius Nyerere Julius Kambarage Nyerere (; 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, aft ...

was born in

; the Mwalimu Nyerere Museum is located in his town of birth. According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Butiama District was 241,732.

Transport

Road

Paved Trunk road T4 from

Mwanza Mwanza City, also known as Rock City to the residents, is a port city and capital of Mwanza Region on the southern shore of Lake Victoria in north-western Tanzania. With an urban population of 1,182,000 in 2021, it is Tanzania's second largest cit ...

to the

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n border passes through Butiama District from south to north. Trunk road T17 from Musoma to

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 ...

passes through the district from north to south.

Administrative subdivisions

As of 2012, Butiama District was administratively divided into 20

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 ...

Wards

* Bisumwa * Buhemba * Bukabwa * Buruma * Busegwe * Bumangi * Buswahili * Butiama * Butuguri * Bwiregi * Etaro * Kukirango * Kyanyari * Masaba * Mirwa * Muriaza * Nyakatende * Nyamimange * Nyankanga * Nyegina * Sirorisimba

References

{{Districts of Mara Districts of Mara Region