title: Magharibi District
text: # Magharibi District
  
  Zanzibar West District is one of the two districts of the Zanzibar Urban/West Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Zanzibar North Region, to the east by the Zanzibar Central/South Region, to the south by Kiwani Bay, and to the west by the Zanzibar Urban District.
  
  As of 2002 Census, the population of the Zanzibar West District was 184,204, but by the 2012 Census it had more than doubled to 370,645
  
  ## Administrative subdivisions
  
  ### Constituencies
  
  For parliamentary elections, Tanzania is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections the area for Zanzibar West District had nine of the nineteen constituencies in the region:
  
  * Bububu Constituency
  * Dimani Constituency
  * Dole Constituency
  * Fuoni Constituency
  * Kiembesamaki Constituency
  * Magogoni Constituency
  * Mfenesini Constituency
  * Mtoni Constituency
  * Mwanakwerekwe Constituency
  
  ### Wards
  
  As of 2012, the Zanzibar West District was administratively divided into thirty-nine wards:
  
  | Nr. | Ward (Shehia) | Population 2012 | Parliamentay Constituency | Remarks |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Sharifu Msa | 4,975 | Bububu | |
  | 2 | Kibweni | 7,115 | Bububu | |
  | 3 | Mwanyanya | 9,683 | Bububu | |
  | 4 | Bububu | 15,666 | Bububu | |
  | 5 | Kihinani | 14,139 | Mfenesini | |
  | 6 | Chuini | 6,158 | Mfenesini | |
  | 7 | Kama | 2,921 | Mfenesini | |
  | 8 | Mfenesini | 2,803 | Mfenesini | |
  | 9 | Mwakaje | 2,907 | Mfenesini | |
  | 10 | Mbuzini | 5,856 | Mfenesini | "on the goat" |
  | 11 | Bumbwisudi | 2,269 | Dole | |
  | 12 | Kizimbani | 3,304 | Dole | |
  | 13 | Dole | 3,933 | Dole | |
  | 14 | Kianga | 9,908 | Dole | |
  | 15 | Mwera | 10,238 | Dole | |
  | 16 | Mtufaani | 9,123 | Dole | |
  | 17 | Mtoni | 6,571 | Mtoni | "in the river" |
  | 18 | Mtoni Kidatu | 16,612 | Mtoni | |
  | 19 | Mto Pepo | 16,440 | Mtoni | |
  | 20 | Welezo | 13,119 | Magogoni | |
  | 21 | Magogoni | 14,928 | Magogoni | |
  | 22 | Kinuni | 11,333 | Magogoni | |
  | 23 | Pangawe | 26,275 | Fuoni | |
  | 24 | Fuoni Kibondeni | 15,40 | Fuoni | |
  | 25 | Maungani | 4,048 | Fuoni | |
  | 26 | Fuoni Kijito Upele | 19,374 | Fuoni | |
  | 27 | Mwanakwerekwe | 20,215 | Mwanakwerekwe | |
  | 28 | Meli Nne | 16,984 | Mwanakwerekwe | |
  | 29 | Tomondo | 23,354 | Mwanakwerekwe | |
  | 30 | Mombasa | 14,492 | Dimani | |
  | 31 | Kisauni | 9,331 | Dimani | |
  | 32 | Shakani | 2,760 | Dimani | |
  | 33 | Nyamanzi | 1,287 | Dimani | |
  | 35 | Dimani | 2,052 | Dimani | |
  | 34 | Kombeni | 3,162 | Dimani | |
  | 36 | Bweleo | 971 | Dimani | |
  | 37 | Fumba | 981 | Dimani | |
  | 38 | Kiembesamaki | 11,760 | Kiembesamaki | |
  | 39 | Chukwani | 8,298 | Kiembesamaki | |
  | Total | Zanzibar West | 370,645 | |
  