Pangani District

Pangani District

Pangani is one of the 7 districts of the Tanga Region. It is bordered to the North by the Muheza District, to the East by the Indian Ocean, to the South by the Pwani Region and to the West by the Handeni District.

The center is Pangani.

According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Pangani District was 44,107. [http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/census/districts/pangani.htm]

Wards

The Pangani District is administratively divided into 13 wards:

* Bushiri
* Bweni
* Kimanga
* Kipumbwi
* Madanga
* Mikunguni
* Mkalamo
* Mkwaja
* Mwera
* Pangani Magharibi (West)
* Pangani Mashariki (East)
* Tungamaa
* Ubangaa

ources

* [http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/census/districts/pangani.htm Pangani District Homepage for the 2002 Tanzania National Census]

R.M. Gramly, "Archaeological reconnaissance at Pangani Bay," "Tanzania Notes and Records", 86/87 (1981), 17-28.

Jonathon Glassman, "Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888" (Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi: EAEP, 1995).


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