from 2,772,509 in 2012. For 2002–2012, the region's 3.0 percent average annual population growth rate was the eighth highest in the country. It was also the sixth most densely populated region in 2012 with . Culture East of Mwanza City is the Bujora Cultural Center with a church and the Sukuma Museum. At the cultural center is education about kisukuma, Basukuma history, and architecture. Additionally the cultural center has tours, camping, music, dancing, workshops, and other cultural activities. Mwanza city's Makongoro Road is named after a prominent Sukuma chief who controlled the area in the late 1800s. While the Mwanza Region is most famous for its ngoma, all aspects of modern Tanzanian culture and music is widely present. Performances and clubs of taarab, bongo flava, dansi, kwaya and other popular Tanzanian music can be found throughout the city of Mwanza, although less common outside the city. Singeli music has been gaining in popularity in the 2020s, and can also be found in some clubs both inside and outside the city. Mwanza Region is known for its ngoma, dances, performed. The types of dances vary depending on the type and reasons for the dance. Some for relaxing, others for competing. Some for entertainment, others for ritual. Wigashe is a dance that has been performed since at least the 1800s. The two most well known groups being the bugika and bugalu whose founders Ngika and Gumha are said to have created wigashe, and many other dances. While those are still the two most known groups, today there are countless more groups and dances. Wigashe often is done from sitting in chairs using rattles and flutes while singing and dancing from sitting position, with upper body and stomping. It is most common for relaxing after doing hard work, but other times can become a competition. Other dances being buchwezi that usually involves snakes, often large pythons, and porcupines, and bugobogobo which is done while farming, particularly as dancing while harvesting. Administrative divisions Districts Mwanza Region is divided into seven districts, each administered by a council: Note: * - municipal district council representing the city of Mwanza Health and Education Education The Mwanza region has people who are sufficiently literate and are suitable for any form of average intensive technology, according to the Tanzania Human Development Report (THDR 2017), which places the region's expected years of schooling at 9.7, placing it eighth out of