Key facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Zone
- lake
- Capital
- Musoma
- Districts
- List Bunda District Butiama District Musoma District Rorya District Serengeti District Tarime
- Regional commissioner
- Dr. Rapahel Chegeni ( CCM )
- Total
- 21,760 km (8,400 sq mi)
- Rank
- 7th of 31
- Density
- 109.0/km (282.3/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Maran
- Settler
- Swahili , Luo , Kurya & Sukuma
- Native
- Zanaki , Kurya , Ngurimi , Ikoma , Ikizu , Kwaya , Jita , Suba , Kerewe , Sizaki & Simbiti
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Postcode
- 31xxx
- Area code
- 028
- Iso 3166 code
- TZ-13
- Hdi 2021
- 0.541 , low · 15th of 25
- Website
- Official website
- Bird
- Secretary bird
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 2372015
- Area
- 21760.0
- Official website
- www.mara.go.tz
- Image
- Balloon Safari 2012 06 01 3126 (7522678450).jpg
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Mara Region (Mkoa wa Mara in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of 21,760 km (8,400 sq mi). The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El Salvador. The neighboring regions are Mwanza Region and Simiyu Region (to the south), Arusha Region (to the southeast), and Kagera Region (across Lake Victoria). The Mara Region borders Kenya (to the northeast).The regional capital is the municipality of Musoma. Mara Region is known for being the home of Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and also the birth place of Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere. Under British colonial occupation, the Mara Region was a district called the Lake Province, which became the Lake Region after independence in 1961.
Geography