{"id":103,"date":"2026-08-01T00:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/tanzania\/singida-region\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:13:33","slug":"singida-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/tanzania\/singida-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Singida Region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singida Region (Swahili: Mkoa wa Singida) lies on the central plateau of Tanzania, between Dodoma to the south-east and Tabora to the west. The 2022 census recorded a population of 2,008,058, up from 1,370,637 in 2012. The regional capital is Singida town, and the region grows more sunflower than any other part of the country.<\/p>\n

Districts of Singida Region<\/h2>\n

Singida Region is administered through seven councils. Itigi was carved out of Manyoni District and now runs its own council. Populations below are from the 2022 census.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
District<\/th>\nCouncil type<\/th>\nPopulation (2022 census)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Ikungi<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n411,262<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iramba<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n328,912<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Singida Rural<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n284,895<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manyoni<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n279,069<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mkalama<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n255,514<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Singida<\/td>\nMunicipal council<\/td>\n232,459<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Itigi<\/td>\nDistrict council<\/td>\n215,947<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Towns and Villages in Singida Region<\/h2>\n

The settlements below are grouped by district. Singida is the regional capital; Kiomboi, Manyoni, Itigi, Puma, Sepuka, Mungaa, Ilongero, Mtinko, Shelui, Ndago, Igugunu, Kilimatinde, Kintinku and Mgandu are the other centres with recorded town populations. Itigi District was created out of Manyoni, so Itigi’s villages appear in the combined Manyoni and Itigi list.<\/p>\n

Singida Municipal<\/h3>\n
    \n
  • Kisaki<\/li>\n
  • Kisasida<\/li>\n
  • Maghumpi<\/li>\n
  • Mkundende<\/li>\n
  • Mtipa<\/li>\n
  • Mwaja<\/li>\n
  • Mwangaa<\/li>\n
  • Nyranga<\/li>\n
  • Singida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Singida Rural<\/h3>\n
      \n
    • Digwa<\/li>\n
    • Duamaganga<\/li>\n
    • Ikiwu<\/li>\n
    • Ilongero<\/li>\n
    • Itamuka<\/li>\n
    • Kijota<\/li>\n
    • Kitoto<\/li>\n
    • Lamba<\/li>\n
    • Matumbo<\/li>\n
    • Merya<\/li>\n
    • Mgori<\/li>\n
    • Mpiyiti<\/li>\n
    • Mpogonjo<\/li>\n
    • Mtinko<\/li>\n
    • Mumbahi<\/li>\n
    • Muporu<\/li>\n
    • Ngata<\/li>\n
    • Ngimu<\/li>\n
    • Salimu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Ikungi<\/h3>\n
        \n
      • Bungu<\/li>\n
      • Dindindi<\/li>\n
      • Dungunyi<\/li>\n
      • Ihanja<\/li>\n
      • Ikungi<\/li>\n
      • Ilisya<\/li>\n
      • Ipusuro<\/li>\n
      • Issuna<\/li>\n
      • Kapiti<\/li>\n
      • Kinginya<\/li>\n
      • Kipamba<\/li>\n
      • Kuhi<\/li>\n
      • Kwasasa<\/li>\n
      • Magasi<\/li>\n
      • Mahaha<\/li>\n
      • Malandala<\/li>\n
      • Mampando<\/li>\n
      • Mangonyi<\/li>\n
      • Manjaro<\/li>\n
      • Maswaswa<\/li>\n
      • Matalele<\/li>\n
      • Matari<\/li>\n
      • Matiuku<\/li>\n
      • Mbwikwe<\/li>\n
      • Mgongila<\/li>\n
      • Mindo<\/li>\n
      • Minyugi<\/li>\n
      • Misaki<\/li>\n
      • Misughaa<\/li>\n
      • Mkurusi<\/li>\n
      • Mnaghana<\/li>\n
      • Mpipiti<\/li>\n
      • Msanja<\/li>\n
      • Mtawira<\/li>\n
      • Muhawa<\/li>\n
      • Mungaa<\/li>\n
      • Muwera<\/li>\n
      • Mwamiru<\/li>\n
      • Ndaiheya<\/li>\n
      • Nduma<\/li>\n
      • Njori<\/li>\n
      • Ntuntu<\/li>\n
      • Ofyana<\/li>\n
      • Panja<\/li>\n
      • Puma<\/li>\n
      • Sepuka<\/li>\n
      • Taru<\/li>\n
      • Ulyampiti<\/li>\n
      • Usasi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Iramba<\/h3>\n
          \n
        • Ikongi<\/li>\n
        • Issui<\/li>\n
        • Kengege<\/li>\n
        • Kidaru<\/li>\n
        • Kimpunda<\/li>\n
        • Kinambeu<\/li>\n
        • Kinampanda<\/li>\n
        • Kiomboi<\/li>\n
        • Kirondatal<\/li>\n
        • Kisana<\/li>\n
        • Kisiriri<\/li>\n
        • Latta<\/li>\n
        • Madalawa<\/li>\n
        • Mahenge<\/li>\n
        • Mbelekese<\/li>\n
        • Meli<\/li>\n
        • Mgongo<\/li>\n
        • Mgungia<\/li>\n
        • Milumbi<\/li>\n
        • Mkonze<\/li>\n
        • Mtekente<\/li>\n
        • Mtoa<\/li>\n
        • Ndago<\/li>\n
        • New Shelui<\/li>\n
        • Nsonga<\/li>\n
        • Ntwike<\/li>\n
        • Old Kiomboi<\/li>\n
        • Sekenke<\/li>\n
        • Shati<\/li>\n
        • Shelui<\/li>\n
        • Temanongia<\/li>\n
        • Timbwa<\/li>\n
        • Tulia<\/li>\n
        • Tutu<\/li>\n
        • Tyeme<\/li>\n
        • Uganda<\/li>\n
        • Ulemo<\/li>\n
        • Urugu<\/li>\n
        • Usamila<\/li>\n
        • Ushora<\/li>\n
        • Ussure<\/li>\n
        • Uwanza<\/li>\n
        • Wala<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Manyoni and Itigi<\/h3>\n
            \n
          • Bagamoyo<\/li>\n
          • Bangayega<\/li>\n
          • Chabutwa<\/li>\n
          • Chambi<\/li>\n
          • Chikola<\/li>\n
          • Chipinga<\/li>\n
          • Chona<\/li>\n
          • Daghibure<\/li>\n
          • Ibenamtundi<\/li>\n
          • Igogo<\/li>\n
          • Ikasi<\/li>\n
          • Ikonse<\/li>\n
          • Ilewiro<\/li>\n
          • Ipampha<\/li>\n
          • Ipanduka<\/li>\n
          • Ipera<\/li>\n
          • Ipunguli<\/li>\n
          • Isanza<\/li>\n
          • Isawa<\/li>\n
          • Iseke<\/li>\n
          • Isombeka<\/li>\n
          • Italawe<\/li>\n
          • Itende<\/li>\n
          • Itetema<\/li>\n
          • Itigi<\/li>\n
          • Itumba<\/li>\n
          • Jabolo<\/li>\n
          • Jamkola<\/li>\n
          • Jiwe la Simba<\/li>\n
          • Kanyiwiri<\/li>\n
          • Kikole<\/li>\n
          • Kikuyu<\/li>\n
          • Kilimatinde<\/li>\n
          • Kintinku<\/li>\n
          • Kipampwa<\/li>\n
          • Kipera<\/li>\n
          • Kipula<\/li>\n
          • Kirurumo<\/li>\n
          • Kisangala<\/li>\n
          • Kitatalo<\/li>\n
          • Kitete<\/li>\n
          • Kititimo<\/li>\n
          • Korongo<\/li>\n
          • Lakalanga<\/li>\n
          • Mabondeni<\/li>\n
          • Madyo<\/li>\n
          • Magiro<\/li>\n
          • Mahaka<\/li>\n
          • Majiri<\/li>\n
          • Makasuko<\/li>\n
          • Makuru<\/li>\n
          • Makutupora<\/li>\n
          • Manyoni<\/li>\n
          • Maoungulu<\/li>\n
          • Masaka<\/li>\n
          • Masima<\/li>\n
          • Mauanguru<\/li>\n
          • Maweni<\/li>\n
          • Mdaburo<\/li>\n
          • Mdagala<\/li>\n
          • Mgandu<\/li>\n
          • Mgoha<\/li>\n
          • Miaroye<\/li>\n
          • Mkanga<\/li>\n
          • Mkunsi<\/li>\n
          • Mkwese<\/li>\n
          • Mnyani<\/li>\n
          • Mpulua<\/li>\n
          • Msalalo<\/li>\n
          • Msita<\/li>\n
          • Mtiwe<\/li>\n
          • Muhalala<\/li>\n
          • Muhamamoja<\/li>\n
          • Muhanga<\/li>\n
          • Mungalo<\/li>\n
          • Muwali<\/li>\n
          • Muyungu<\/li>\n
          • Mwasa<\/li>\n
          • Nayirago<\/li>\n
          • Ngaiti<\/li>\n
          • Njirii<\/li>\n
          • Nkonko<\/li>\n
          • Nkunjila<\/li>\n
          • Ntumbi<\/li>\n
          • Nungi<\/li>\n
          • Nyauwele<\/li>\n
          • Pangala<\/li>\n
          • Petu<\/li>\n
          • Pola<\/li>\n
          • Ruanlisa<\/li>\n
          • Rungwa<\/li>\n
          • Salamba<\/li>\n
          • Sanjaranda<\/li>\n
          • Saranda<\/li>\n
          • Sasajila<\/li>\n
          • Sekeura<\/li>\n
          • Simba Nguru<\/li>\n
          • Tiwuka<\/li>\n
          • Ukimbu<\/li>\n
          • Usuhilo<\/li>\n
          • Uyanzi<\/li>\n
          • Wangama<\/li>\n
          • Zuboro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Mkalama<\/h3>\n
              \n
            • Chem Chem<\/li>\n
            • Endasiku<\/li>\n
            • Gumanga<\/li>\n
            • Iambi<\/li>\n
            • Igengu<\/li>\n
            • Igugunu<\/li>\n
            • Ikungu<\/li>\n
            • Ilongo<\/li>\n
            • Kinyambuli<\/li>\n
            • Kinyangiri<\/li>\n
            • Kirumi<\/li>\n
            • Lukomo<\/li>\n
            • Maelu<\/li>\n
            • Makulo<\/li>\n
            • Matongo<\/li>\n
            • Mfumbo<\/li>\n
            • Miganga<\/li>\n
            • Mkalama<\/li>\n
            • Msingi<\/li>\n
            • Mudida<\/li>\n
            • Muntamba<\/li>\n
            • Mwansigwa<\/li>\n
            • Nduguti<\/li>\n
            • Nkalakala<\/li>\n
            • Nkindiko<\/li>\n
            • Senga<\/li>\n
            • Tumbili<\/li>\n
            • Tumuli<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Other localities<\/h3>\n
                \n
              • Igongo<\/li>\n
              • Isanga<\/li>\n
              • Kinyika<\/li>\n
              • Kuru<\/li>\n
              • Mponde<\/li>\n
              • Mtikira<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Geography<\/h2>\n

                Singida Region covers 49,340 km\u00b2, the fifth largest of Tanzania’s regions, and holds about 41 people per km\u00b2. It borders Shinyanga and Simiyu to the north-west, Arusha and Manyara to the north-east, Dodoma to the east, Iringa and Mbeya to the south, and Tabora to the west.<\/p>\n

                The land sits on the central plateau between 1,200 and 1,500 m above sea level. The eastern arm of the Great Rift Valley cuts through it, and the escarpment reaches 180 m in places, most visibly at Kilimatinde in Manyoni District. Lake Eyasi touches the northern boundary, Lake Kitangiri lies in Iramba, and the small Lake Singidani sits beside Singida town. The Sibiti is the only permanent river; the Wembere, Ndurumo and Great Ruaha run seasonally. Rainfall is unreliable, 500 to 800 mm a year, falling between December and March. The Rungwa Game Reserve occupies the far south of Manyoni District.<\/p>\n

                Economy and Local Life<\/h2>\n

                About nine in ten working people in Singida Region farm. Maize accounts for roughly 46 percent of the food crop and sorghum about 24 percent, with bulrush millet and cassava filling the gaps in drier years. Sunflower is the cash crop that defines the region: annual production runs to about 134,000 tonnes, and small pressing mills operate in Singida town, Ikungi, Iramba and Manyoni. Onions from Ikungi and Singida Rural travel to markets in Dodoma, Arusha and Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n

                Livestock is the second pillar, with roughly 1.4 million cattle and 1.1 million chickens across the region. Sekenke in Iramba District worked Tanzania’s first commercial gold mine, opened in 1909; small-scale mining continues in the area. Beekeeping and charcoal supplement farm income in Manyoni and Itigi.<\/p>\n

                The Nyaturu are the largest ethnic group in Singida Rural, Ikungi and Singida town, with the Nyiramba in Iramba and Mkalama and the Nyisanzu in the north. Kilimatinde in Manyoni District carries a German colonial fort and mission station built above the escarpment in the 1890s, when the caravan road to Lake Tanganyika passed below it.<\/p>\n

                Getting There<\/h2>\n

                The T3 trunk road runs through Singida town, linking it east to Dodoma and north-west to Nzega and Shinyanga. A tarmac road heads north from Singida to Babati and on to Arusha. Manyoni and Itigi sit on the paved Dodoma to Tabora corridor in the south.<\/p>\n

                The Central Line railway crosses the south of the region through Manyoni, Itigi and Saranda. A branch line from Manyoni to Singida town exists but carries no scheduled service. Singida Airstrip handles light aircraft; the nearest airports with regular scheduled flights are at Dodoma and Arusha.<\/p>\n

                FAQ<\/h2>\n

                How many districts are in Singida Region?<\/h3>\n

                Seven councils: Ikungi, Iramba, Singida Rural, Manyoni, Mkalama, Singida Municipal and Itigi.<\/p>\n

                What is the population of Singida Region?<\/h3>\n

                The 2022 census recorded a population of 2,008,058, compared with 1,370,637 in 2012.<\/p>\n

                What is the capital of Singida Region?<\/h3>\n

                Singida town, run by Singida Municipal Council, which held a population of 232,459 in 2022.<\/p>\n

                What is Singida known for?<\/h3>\n

                Sunflower. The region produces about 134,000 tonnes a year and presses much of it into cooking oil locally. It is also known for Lake Singidani, the Rift Valley escarpment at Kilimatinde and the old Sekenke gold mine.<\/p>\n

                What villages are in Singida Region?<\/h3>\n

                The list above covers more than 250 towns and villages across all seven councils, from Sepuka and Puma in Ikungi to Nduguti and Iambi in Mkalama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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