Ruvuma Region is a region in Tanzania. It is named after the Ruvuma River which forms most of its southern boundary with Mozambique. It is also bordered to the north by the Morogoro Region, to the northeast by the Lindi Region, to the east by the Mtwara Region and to the northwest by the Iringa Region. Ruvuma has many different tribes, such as the Mpoto. The capital is the city of Songea.
According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Ruvuma Region was 1,117,166.
The Regional Commissioner of the Ruvuma Region is Hon. Monica Ngenzi Mbega. Prior to assuming this post she was already a member of parliament from the Iringa Mjini Constituency and a board member of the Parastatal Pensions Fund.
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“It was the most wild and desolate region we had camped in, where, if anywhere, one might expect to meet with befitting inhabitants, but I heard only the squeak of a nighthawk flitting over. The moon in her first quarter, in the fore part of the night, setting over the bare rocky hills garnished with tall, charred, and hollow stumps or shells of trees, served to reveal the desolation.”
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