Unguja
Unguja is the largest and most populated island of the Zanzibar archipelago, in Tanzania. It is home to Zanzibar City, the capital of the Zanzibar region, which includes the historic Stone Town.
- Island
- …has 897,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 40 metres (131 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Menuthias”
- Description: island in Tanzania
- Also known as“Unguja Island”“Zanzibar”“Zanzibar Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koani and Mwera.
Unguja
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-6.1556° or 6° 9′ 20″ south
Longitude
39.3417° or 39° 20′ 30″ east
Open location code
6G5XR8VR+QM
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Unguja” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oengoeja”
- Arabic: “جزيرة أنغوجا”
- Armenian: “Զանզիբար (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Զանզիբար”
- Basque: “Unguja”
- Bulgarian: “Занзибар”
- Catalan: “Unguja”
- Cebuano: “Zanzibar Island”
- Chinese: “安古迦岛”
- Chinese: “温古贾岛”
- Croatian: “Unguja”
- Czech: “ostrov Zanzibar”
- Czech: “Unguja”
- Czech: “Zanzibar”
- Danish: “Unguja”
- Dutch: “Unguja”
- Dutch: “Zanzibar”
- Esperanto: “Unguĵo”
- Estonian: “Sansibari saar”
- French: “Île de Zanzibar”
- French: “Unguja”
- French: “Zanzibar”
- Galician: “Illa de Zanzíbar”
- Georgian: “ზანზიბარი”
- German: “Sansibar”
- German: “Unguja”
- Greek: “Ουνγκούτζα”
- Hausa: “Unguja”
- Hebrew: “אונגוג’ה”
- Indonesian: “Unguja”
- Italian: “Unguja”
- Japanese: “ウングジャ島”
- Korean: “웅구자섬”
- Latvian: “Ungudža”
- Lithuanian: “Ungudža”
- Macedonian: “Унгуџа”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Unguja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Unguja”
- Norwegian: “Unguja”
- Persian: “اونگوجا”
- Polish: “Zanzibar”
- Portuguese: “Unguja”
- Russian: “Занзибар (остров)”
- Russian: “Занзибар”
- Russian: “Унгуджа”
- Shona: “Unguja”
- Slovak: “Unguja”
- Spanish: “Unguja”
- Swahili: “Unguja”
- Swedish: “Unguja”
- Swedish: “Zanzibar”
- Tamil: “உங்குஜா தீவு”
- Turkish: “Unguja”
- Ukrainian: “Занзібар”
- Ukrainian: “Унгуджа”
- Urdu: “انگوجا”
- Vietnamese: “Unguja”
- Western Frisian: “Sansibar”
- Western Mari: “Занзибар ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “انگوجا”
- Zulu: “Unguja”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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