Kagera Region

Kagera Region is one of the 31 administrative regions of Tanzania, in the far north-west of the mainland on the western shore of Lake Victoria, and its regional capital is Bukoba. It has a total area of 35,686 square kilometres, of which about 27 percent is water, mostly in Lake Victoria, Lake Ikimba, Lake Burigi, Lake Ngono and the Kagera River, which gives the region its name and forms its border with Rwanda. It borders Uganda to the north, Rwanda and Burundi to the west, and the Tanzanian regions of Geita and Kigoma to the south. Rainfall is highest along the lake shore and falls away from it. The 2022 census counted 2,989,299 people, up from 2,458,023 in 2012.