Pwani

Pwani Region is considered one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The local capital is the city of Kibaha. According to the 2012 national census, the vicinity had a populace of 1,098,668, which turned into barely decrease than the pre-census projection of one,one hundred ten,917. From 2002 to 2012, the vicinity's 2.2 percent average annual populace growth fee turned into the seventeenth-highest inside the usa. It became additionally the 21st most densely populated area with 34 people in line with square kilometer. With a size of 32,407 rectangular kilometres, the place is barely larger than the U.S. State of Maryland.

The location is bordered to the north by means of the Tanga Region, to the east via the Dar es Salaam Region and the Indian Ocean, to the south via the Lindi Region, and to the west by using the Morogoro Region. The phrase "pwani" in Kiswahili way "coast". Minaki Secondary School this college changed into mounted in Kisarawe in 1925, as St. Andrews College. Prior to that, it traces its history lower back to a Universities' Mission to Central Africa undertaking faculty mounted in Kiungani, Zanzibar, in 1869.