Morogoro
The Morogoro Region is the second largest Region in the country, preceded by the Tabora region. The region has an area of 73,039 km2. This area is equivalent to 7.7 percent of the entire area of the mainland; 2240 km2 of this area is water area. The province borders the coast and Lindi Regions to the East , Manyara and Tanga to the North, the Dodoma and Iringa Regions to the West and the Ruvuma Region to the South.
The region gets rain twice a year. Autumn rain falls from October to mid-January, and the spring rain falls in the middle of February and ends in May. Rainfall ranges from 600 mm in the plains to 1,200 mm in the highlands. However, there are areas with droughts that get less than 600 millimeters precipitation per year. Those parts include the Division of Gairo in Gairo District, Mamboya in Kilosa District, and Ngerengere Division in Morogoro District.
According to the results of the 2022 Population and Housing Census, the number of households in Morogoro Region is 489,688 with 3,197,104 people, of which 1,617,235 are women and 1,579,869 men. The City District of Morogoro has a population of 321,980.
The Morogoro City Council aims to be a council with a strong and sustainable economy, an educated community with a better life and living in peace and stability by 2025. In collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, the Council has a mission to use existing resources effectively in providing quality services to the people in order to build a strong economy and reduce poverty under the principles of good governance.
The region has a wide variety of nature and tourist attractions include the Pangawe Fourest, Milalawila Forest, Kimboza Forest, Kisaki Hot Water Springs, Kisimbi-Kinole Waterfalls, and Matombo Rock Formations.
Vaasa established a twinning relationship with Morogoro city in Tanzania on 26 September 1988. The partnership has the purposes of peace education and international cooperation. By this, the City of Vaasa wants to reach the grassroots level within various professional areas and encourage individual city inhabitants to work for the developing countries. A Vaasa-Tanzania Association was founded in 1989 for these purposes. The association has realised various cooperation projects together with schools, higher education institutions, parishes, civic organisations, the prison authority, libraries, health care units, and folk tradition groups in Morogoro. The Åbo Academy University in Vaasa has also been actively helping Morogoro by taking students and PhD students from Morogoro to Vaasa for further study opportunities.
