- Butiama
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subdivision_name2 =Musoma Rural
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footnotes =Butiama is a town in northern
Tanzania and the birthplace of Julius K. Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania. It is one of the wards of the Musoma Rural District within theMara Region it is also the local residencial area of the Wazanaki tribe which is believed to be the smallest tribe in the region] .Several things have taken the moniker "Butiama" because of its significance to Tanzanian history, such as the MV Butiama which is a ship that travels from
Mwanza toUkerewe and back.According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of Butiama was 15,383.
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