Geita Municipal Council

Geita Municipal Council is one of the two council forming Geita District, other Council is Geita District Council. Geita District is one of the five (5) districts in Geita Region. It gained the status of being a district in 1961 being combined with Sengerema District, by then being known as Geita Province. It had 16,638 Km2 of which dry land was 10,123.94Km2 and water was 6,514.06Km2. Also it had a population of 371,407. In 1975 the province was divided forming two districts namely Geita and Sengerema. The main ethnic groups in the district are Sukuma, Zinza, Kara, Longo and Ha.
The word “Geita” originated from three Yango (Rongo) tribe words which are “Akabanga keita abhantu” meaning vanishing in mysterious situation which happened in one of the Geita hills which was believed to be sacred, used by Yango (Rongo) people for praying to their gods then; the colonialist failed to pronounce the word” Ketabantu” instead they pronounced “Geita”the name Geita became popular to community around