[4]: page 2  For 2002–2012, the region's 2.4 percent average annual population growth rate was tied for the fourteenth highest in the country.

Kigoma Region resides in the northwestern corner of Tanzania, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

[8] The topography in the north and east is gently rolling hills that gradually become steeper as they get closer to the Albertine Rift margin.

[10] It was visited by the early European explorers Richard Burton, John Speke, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley.

[12] Ha people are the largest ethnic group living here, alongside other significant populations are of the Wabembe, Wamanyema, Watongwe and Wavinza, Sukuma and Haya.