| Mbeya was founded as a gold mining town in the | | | | population of this city was 280,000. Mbeya is the |
| 1920s. The TAZARA railway soon drawing farming | | | | capital of the surrounding rural Mbeya region. |
| migrants and small entrepreneurs to the area. Mbeya | | | | Mbeya is the first large urban settlement met when |
| and its district were administered by the British until | | | | traveling overland from the nearby nation of Zambia. |
| 1961. Mbeya Region was created in 1961. Local | | | | Mbeya is situated at an altitude of 1,700m and sprawls |
| government is administered via the Mbeya Urban | | | | through a narrow highland valley surrounded by a bowl |
| District authority and a Regional Commissioner. | | | | of high mountains. The main language is informal |
| Mbeya is a city in Tanzania situated at southwest. | | | | Swahili and the English language is extensively taught in |
| According to the statistical of 2005 the urban | | | | schools. |