 The total population of the Pwani Region for 2012 was 1,098,668.In the past, the overwhelming majority of the Kwere lived in their traditional residential areas in Bagamoyo district on the coast.The pervasive dominance of the Swahili language in coastal affairs throughout East Africa for many centuries have led to most peoples indigenous in the area to be at least bilingual, the Ngh'were are no different.