Pwani Region

Pwani Region, whose Swahili name means coast, is one of the 31 administrative regions of Tanzania, with the town of Kibaha as its capital. It borders Tanga Region to the north, Morogoro Region to the west and Lindi Region to the south, surrounds Dar es Salaam Region, and has the Indian Ocean to the north-east and south-east. It includes Mafia Island, the Rufiji delta and Saadani National Park, and the historic Swahili settlement of Bagamoyo, which was the first colonial capital of German East Africa. The native peoples include the Zaramo, Kwere, Doe, Ndengereko, Zigua and Rufiji. The population was 1,098,668 at the 2012 census and had nearly doubled to 2,024,947 by the 2022 census, a very rapid rise.