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Serengeti District is one of the seven districts of Mara Region of Tanzania. Its administrative centre is the town of Mugumu . It is home to part of the world-famous Serengeti National Park a UNESCO World Heritage Site and contains one of the western gates to the park.
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Mara Region is known for being the home of Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and also the birth place of Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere. Under British colonial occupation, the Mara Region was a district called the Lake Province, which became the Lake Region after independence in 1961. [5]
An umbrella thorn silhouetted by the setting sun near Seronera Camp. Map of Tanzania showing the country's national parks, including the Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti (/ ˌ s ɛr ə n ˈ ɡ ɛ t i / SERR-ən-GHET-ee) ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania. [1]
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over 14,763 km 2 (5,700 sq mi). [1] It is located in eastern Mara Region and northeastern Simiyu Region and contains over 1.5 million ha (3.7 million acres) of virgin savanna. The park was established in 1940.
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It is the administrative seat of Serengeti District. According to the 2012 census, the population of Mugumu town (Mugumu and Stendi Kuu Wards) was 16,851. [2] There are plans to build a new international airport in Mugumu town, to boost the number of visitors to Serengeti National Park. [3]
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