Arumeru District (Meru District and Arusha Rural District) is a former district in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. It was bordered to the north, west, and southwest by Monduli District, to the southeast by the city of Arusha, and to the east by the Kilimanjaro Region.
, the population of the Arumeru District was 516,814.
Administrative subdivisions
Constituencies For parliamentary elections, Arusha Region is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections Arumeru District had two constituencies, Arumeru West (Arumeru Magharibi) Constituency and Arumeru East (Arumeru Mashariki) Constituency.
Divisions Beginning in 2007 Arumeru District has been administered by two district councils: Arusha District Council and Meru District Council."Meru district council is among the two councils that form Arumeru district." Arusha District Council administers three divisions, 20 wards, 75 villages, 294 hamlets and 64,339 households. Meru District Council administers three divisions, 17 wards, 71 villages and 281 subvillages.
Wards The Arumeru District is administratively divided into 37 wards:
Akheri Bangata Bwawani Ilkiding'a Kikatiti Kikwe Kimnyaki King'ori Kiranyi Kisongo Leguruki Makiba Lemanyata Maji ya ChaiIn English, the Swahili "Maji ya Chai" means: water for tea. Maroroni Mateves Mbuguni Mlangarini Moivo Moshono Murieti Musa Mwandeti Nduruma Ngarenanyuki Nkoanrua Nkoaranga Nkoarisambu Oldonyosambu Oljoro Olkokola Oltroto Oltrumet Poli Singisi Sokoni II Songoro Usa River
Economy The district economy is almost entirely agricultural, consisting mostly of subsistence farming and livestock raising. Exports from the few large-scale commercial horticultural farms bring in most of the money in the district. In 2012, that economy in Arumeru District was threatened when, local landless residents forcibly occupied some of those commercial farms.
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