Country Tanzania Established 2012 Postcode 39xxx Population 1.584 million (2012) Area code 028 | Zone Lake Time zone EAT (UTC+3) Area 25,212 km² Capital Bariadi District | |
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Simiyu Region is one of Tanzania's 30 administrative regions. The regional capital is the town of Bariadi. The region was created in March 2012, from part of Shinyanga Region.
According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 1,584,157. For 2002-2012, the region's 1.8 percent average annual population growth rate was the twenty-third-highest in the country. It was also the fifteenth-most-densely-populated region with 63 people per square kilometer.
Districts
The region is administratively divided into five districts:
References
Simiyu Region Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA