Mpanda

Mpanda is a town in Katavi Region of Tanzania, East Africa with a postcode variety 50100. It is the executive centre of Katavi Region, Mpanda District and is itself one of the four districts of the area. Mpanda is a "frontier metropolis" in the a long way west of Tanzania, more or less 500 km north of Mbeya and 380 km south-west of Tabora. It is the administrative headquarters for the Katavi Region, created via subdivision of the Rukwa Region in 2012, and for the Mpanda District. It is an crucial centre inside the rural economy, particularly for the advertising and transshipment of rice and maize. The Katavi region is more and more of interest to mineral prospectors, especially for gold. It is also a staging factor for travelling the beautiful Katavi National Park, with its headquarters just 35 km to the south at Sitalike.

The Park has an awesome cross-phase of East African wildlife however is possibly exceptional known for its populations of hippopotamus. Tabora or Kigoma stay unsealed and can for short periods turn out to be impassable at the peak of the wet season specially February–March. The Tanzanian authorities have in progress a task to seal a big part of the road north from Sumbawanga.