Bukombe District NACTVET Registered Colleges and Institutions-Tanzania

Bukombe is one of the Districts established by government of Tanzania in July 1995. Its is one of the five district constituting Geita Region.

The district was separated from Kahama District after it had experienced a number of administrative and development constraints such as vast area of Kahama District which had an area of 19.943 km2, inaccessible topography, high population increase, poor communication networks and the thinly dispersed distribution patterns of human settlement within its area of jurisdiction.

The word “Bukombe” originated from traditional ceremonial name (Bukombe) which means “special day ceremonies for bride price exchange between two agreed families” meaning; vanishing in mysterious situation which happened one day which was commonly used amongst the sumbwa community.

“Bukombe” the name Bukombe became popular to community around until now.