Gairo District is one of the seven

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

of the

Morogoro Region Morogoro Region (''Mkoa wa Morogoro'' 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 Ireland. Morogoro Region is border ...

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 ...

. It is located in the northwest corner of Morogoro Region. The administrative seat is in the town of Gairo.

History

Gairo District was formally established when it was gazetted in March 2012. Prior to that Gairo was a division of

Kilosa District Kilosa District is one of the six districts of the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. Its administrative seat is the town of Kilosa. Kilosa District covers . It is bordered to the north by the Manyara Region, to the northeast by the Tanga Region, to ...

Administrative subdivisions

Constituencies

For parliamentary elections, Tanzania is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections the area that became Gairo District (formerly part of Kilosa District) had one constituency: * Gairo Constituency

Divisions

Gairo District is administratively divided into divisions.

Wards

As of 2012, Gairo District was administratively divided into eight

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 ...

: * Gairo * Mandege *

Rubeho Rubeho is a town, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and ward in Gairo District in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania, East Africa. As of 2002, the population of the ward was 17,020. Prior to 2012, Rubeho was administered by Kilo ...

Chagongwe Chagongwe is a town and administrative ward in Gairo District in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania, East Africa. As of 2002, the population of the ward was 7,337. There is a government-run dispensary A dispensary is an office in a school, hos ...

* Chanjale * Kibedya * Chakwale * Iyogwe

Notes

{{Use dmy dates, date=August 2015 Districts of Morogoro Region States and territories established in 2012