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Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions · 🇹🇿 Tanzania

World > country: the biggest first-level regions

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Why these 20

Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.

  1. 1 D

    Dar es Salaam Region

    region of Tanzania

    5,383,728

  2. 2 D

    Dar es Salaam

    largest city in Tanzania and capital of Dar es Salaam Region

    4,715,000

    Also in: #1 most populous cities (Tanzania)#1 most populous cities (Dar es Salaam Region)

  3. 3 M

    Mwanza Region

    region of Tanzania

    3,699,872

  4. 4 T

    Tabora Region

    region of Tanzania

    3,391,679

  5. 5 M

    Morogoro Region

    region of Tanzania

    3,197,104

  6. 6 D

    Dodoma Region

    Region in Tanzania

    3,085,625

  7. 7 K

    Kagera Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,989,299

  8. 8 T

    Tanga Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,615,597

  9. 9 K

    Kigoma Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,470,967

  10. 10 M

    Mara Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,372,015

  11. 11 A

    Arusha Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,356,255

  12. 12 M

    Mbeya Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,343,754

  13. 13 S

    Shinyanga Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,241,299

  14. 14 P

    Pwani Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,024,947

  15. 15 S

    Singida Region

    region of Tanzania

    2,008,058

  16. 16 M

    Manyara Region

    region of Tanzania

    1,892,502

  17. 17 K

    Kilimanjaro Region

    region of Tanzania

    1,861,934

  18. 18 R

    Ruvuma Region

    region of Tanzania

    1,848,794

  19. 19 M

    Mtwara Region

    region of Tanzania

    1,634,947

  20. 20 R

    Rukwa Region

    region of Tanzania

    1,540,519

How it is measured

Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.

References

  1. Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.