Ukonga is an administrative ward in the

Ilala District Ilala District (Officially known as Ilala Municipal Council ) is one of five districts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the others being Temeke to the South and Kinondoni to the North and Ubungo to the northwest. The 2012 National Tanzania Census s ...

of the

Dar es Salaam Region Dar es Salaam Region (''Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions and is located in the east coast of the country. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land and ...

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with

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12107. According to the 2002

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, the ward has a total population of 75,014. Its name was first mentioned in a book by a German missionary during the late nineteenth century making it one of the handful oldest known suburbs of Dar es Salaam city; in that book, it was said that Ukonga had plenty of coconut and mango trees something which could be seen as soon as in 1980s (in fact there is a well known place, in Ukonga, known as "Mwembe-Madafu" which literally translates to Mango-Coconut place).

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