[1][2] According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of Missenyi District was 202,632, with a population density of 72 inhabitants per square kilometre (190/sq mi).

[4] As of 2012, Missenyi District was administratively divided into 20 wards with 77 villages.

[5][3] Paved trunk road T4 from Mwanza to the Ugandan border passes through Missenyi District.

[6] In October 1978 Uganda invaded the Kagera Salient in northern Tanzania, initiating the Uganda–Tanzania War.

By early January of 1979, all Ugandan troops had been ejected from Kagera.