Welcome to Kagera Region!
Kagera is an administrative region in Tanzania. It is located on the western shore of Lake Victoria in the northwestern area of the country. Kagera borders Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya, which is on the other side of Lake Victoria. The region was known as West Lake before June 1979. The regional capital is the city of Bukoba.
The attempted annexation of Kagera by Uganda in 1979 triggered the Uganda–Tanzania War.
On 10 September 2016, the region was struck by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Tanzania.