Pwani Region is one of Tanzania's 30 administrative regions. The regional capital is the town of Kibaha. According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 1,098,668, which was slightly lower than the pre-census projection of 1,110,917.:page 2 For 2002-2012, the region's 2.2 percent average annual population growth rate was the seventeenth highest in the country.:page 4 It was also the 21st most densely populated region with 34 people per square kilometer.:page 6 With a size of 32,407 square kilometres (12,512 sq mi), the region is slightly larger than the state of Maryland in the United States (32,133 square kilometres (12,407 sq mi)).