Nyamwaga

Nyamwaga
Nyamwaga
Ward
	Nyamwaga Location within Tanzania Nyamwaga Location within Africa
	Coordinates: 1°23′37″S 34°34′45″E / 1.393553971631574°S 34.579145943042825°E
Country	Tanzania
Region	Mara Region
District	Tarime District
Population (2022)
• Total	21,302
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)
Postcode	31417

Nyamwaga is a rural ward located in the Tarime district in the Mara region in northwest Tanzania.^[2] It is one of the wards surrounding the North Mara Goldmine.

Villages and Hamlets

The ward consists of 5 villages (kijiji), which are further divided into 26 hamlets (kitongoji):^[3]

Historical Population Figures
	2002^[2]	2012^[4]	2016^[5]	2022^[1]
Population	12,120	13,917	15,357	21,302
Households	2,261	2,729	N/A	4,277
Average household size	5.4	5.1	N/A	5.0

1 2 "Administrative Units Population Distribution Report" (PDF). National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania) and Presidents’ Office - Finance and Planning Office of the Chief Government Statistician Zanzibar. December 2022. p. 186. Retrieved 13 March 2024. Cite error: Unknown parameter "}" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
1 2 "2002 Population and Housing Census: Mara: Tarime. Population by Sex, Number of Households and Average Household Size". tanzania.go.tz. Archived from the original on 20 Mar 2004. Retrieved 13 Mar 2024.
↑ "Mara Postcodes" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority.
↑ "2012 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas". National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania). March 2013. p. 183.
↑ 2016 Makadirio ya Idadi ya Watu katika Majimbo ya Uchaguzi kwa Mwaka 2016, Tanzania Bara [Population Estimates in Administrative Areas for the Year 2016, Mainland Tanzania] (PDF) (Report) (in Swahili). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: National Bureau of Statistics. 2016-04-01. p. 155. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-12-27. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

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