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Ibugule

ward of Tanzania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2022
Entity authorityQ10996882 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ibugule is an administrative ward in the Dodoma Rural district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 8,745 people in the ward, from 8,046 in 2012.

Editorial summary

“Ibugule” enters the record as ward of Tanzania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ibugule, ward and Tanzania can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ibugule, ward and Tanzania.
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“Ibugule” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ibugule, ward and Tanzania provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q10996882. Authority coordinates are -6.392, 35.516. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ibugule” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.