Kinondoni is one of five

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, Tanzania, others being

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Ubungo 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 ...

and Ilala (downtown Dar es Salaam). To the east is the

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, to the north and west the

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of Tanzania. The area of Kinondoni is . The 2002 Tanzanian National

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showed that the population of Kinondoni was 1,083,913. The census of 2012 showed that the population of Kinondoni was 1,775,049: 914,247 female and 860,802 male. There are 446,504 households in Kinondoni with an average of 4 people per household. The original inhabitants of Kinondoni were the

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and Ndengereko, but due to urbanization the district has become multi-ethnic.

Wards

Below is a list of the wards in Kinondoni District: # Bunju #

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# Kawe # Kibamba # Kigogo #

Kijitonyama Kijitonyama is an administrative ward in the Kinondoni district 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 c ...

# Kimara # Kinondoni # Kunduchi # Magomeni # Makumbusho # Makurumla #

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# Mbweni # Mikocheni #

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# Mwananyamala # Mzimuni # Ndugumbi # Tandale # Mbezi Juu # Makongo # Mabwepande # Wazi

Sources

Kinondoni District homepage for the 2002 Tanzania National Census

Kinondoni Municipal Council

References

{{Districts of Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Districts of Dar es Salaam Region Populated places in Dar es Salaam Region