Manzese is an administrative ward in the

Ubungo District Ubungo District (officially known as Ubungo Municipal Council) is one of five districts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the others being Ilala to the South and Kinondoni to the North and Kigamboni across Kivukoni harbor. Wards Ilala District is s ...

of the Dar es Salaam Region of

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 ...

. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 66,866. Manzese was founded as a

squatted Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

informal settlement Informal housing or informal settlement can include any form of housing, shelter, or settlement (or lack thereof) which is illegal, falls outside of government control or regulation, or is not afforded protection by the state. As such, the inform ...

and had a population of 90,000 in 1975. A third of its adults were working full-time. By 1980, it had infrastructure such as roads and sanitation facilities.

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Kinondoni District Wards of Dar es Salaam Region {{DaresSalaam-geo-stub