Zanzibar

Zanzibar City or Mjini District, Pronunciation often simply referred to as Zanzibar, is one of two administrative districts of in .
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  • Type: City with 710,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Jiji la Zanzibar”, “Mji Mkongwe”, “Mji wa Zanzibar”, “Stoun Taunas”, “Unguja”, “Zanzibar (mji)”, “Zanzibar (oraş)”, “Zanzibar Ceety”, “Zanzibar city”, “Zanzibar City”, “Zanzibar City مدينة زنجبار”, “Zanzibar Town”, “Zanzibar-Stadt”, “Занзибар Сити”, “Занзібар (горад)”, “زنزيبار”, and “ザンジバル市”

Places of Interest

Highlights: House of Wonders and Amaan Stadium.

Museum
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The or Palace of Wonders is a landmark building in , .

Stadium
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is a in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

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The , also known as Ithnashiri…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stone Town and Bububu.

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is the main city on .

Town
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is a town on the island of , the main island of .

Village
is a city located on the island of .

Zanzibar

Latitude
-6.1665° or 6° 9′ 59″ south
Longitude
39.2074° or 39° 12′ 27″ east
Population
710,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
ZNZ
UN/LOCODE
TZ ZNZ
Open location code
6G5XR6M4+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3320526612
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
148730
Wiki­data ID
Q2222874
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Zanzibar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zanzibarstad”
  • Amharic: “ዛንዚባር”
  • Arabic: “مدينة زنجبار”
  • Armenian: “Զանզիբար (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Զանզիբար”
  • Asturian: “Zanzibar City”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zanzibar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zənzibar”
  • Basque: “Zanzibar”
  • Bavarian: “Zanzibar (Stodt)”
  • Belarusian: “Занзібар”
  • Belarusian: “Занзыбар”
  • Bengali: “জাঞ্জিবার সিটি”
  • Bengali: “জাঞ্জিবার”
  • Bulgarian: “Занзибар (град)”
  • Bulgarian: “Занзибар”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Zanzíbar”
  • Catalan: “Zanzíbar”
  • Cebuano: “Zanzibar”
  • Chinese: “桑给巴尔市”
  • Croatian: “Zanzibar (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Zanzibar”
  • Czech: “Zanzibar”
  • Danish: “Zanzibar by”
  • Dutch: “Zanzibar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة زنجبار”
  • Esperanto: “Zanzibaro (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Zanzibaro”
  • Finnish: “Sansibar”
  • French: “Zanzibar”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Zanzíbar”
  • Georgian: “ზანზიბარი”
  • German: “Sansibar Stadt”
  • German: “Sansibar-Stadt”
  • German: “Sansibar”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Ζανζιβάρης”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાંઝીબર શહેર”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Zanzibar”
  • Hausa: “Zanzibar”
  • Hebrew: “זנזיבר סיטי”
  • Hindi: “जंजीबार शहर”
  • Hindi: “ज़ंज़ीबार सिटी”
  • Hindi: “ज़ंजीबार”
  • Hindi: “ज़ांज़ीबार”
  • Hungarian: “Zanzibár”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Zanzibar”
  • Indonesian: “Zanzibar City”
  • Indonesian: “Zanzibar”
  • Irish: “Cathair Zanzibar”
  • Italian: “Zanzibar”
  • Japanese: “ザンジバルシティ”
  • Javanese: “Zanzibar”
  • Kannada: “ಜಂಜಿಬಾರ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Занзибар (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Занзибар”
  • Kirghiz: “Занзибар”
  • Korean: “잔지바르 시”
  • Korean: “잔지바르”
  • Korean: “잔지바르시티”
  • Kotava: “Zanzibar (widava)”
  • Kotava: “Zanzibar”
  • Latvian: “Zanzibāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Zanzibaras (miestas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Zanzibaras”
  • Macedonian: “Занзибар”
  • Malay: “Zanzibar City”
  • Malay: “Zanzibar”
  • Marathi: “झांझिबार शहर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanzibar”
  • Norwegian: “Zanzibar by”
  • Norwegian: “Zanzibar”
  • Oromo: “Zanzibar”
  • Panjabi: “زنجبار”
  • Persian: “زنگبار”
  • Persian: “شهرستان زنگبار”
  • Polish: “Zanzibar”
  • Portuguese: “Zanzibar”
  • Pushto: “زنجبار”
  • Romanian: “Zanzibar (oraș)”
  • Romanian: “Zanzibar”
  • Russian: “Занзибар”
  • Scots: “Zanzibar”
  • Serbian: “Занзибар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zanzibar”
  • Sindhi: “زنجبار شهر”
  • Sinhala: “සන්සිබාර් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Zanzibar (mesto)”
  • Slovak: “Zanzibar”
  • Slovenian: “Zanzibar”
  • Somali: “Zanzibar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زنقبار (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زنقبار”
  • Spanish: “Zanzíbar”
  • Swahili: “Zanzibar”
  • Swedish: “Zanzibar”
  • Tajik: “Зanjибор”
  • Tajik: “Занзибар Ситӣ”
  • Tamil: “சாண்ஸ்ய்பர் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Zanzibar”
  • Telugu: “జంజిబార్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “ซานซิบาร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Zanzibar City”
  • Turkish: “Zanzibar City”
  • Turkish: “Zanzibar”
  • Ukrainian: “Занзібар”
  • Urdu: “زنجبار شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Zanjibar”
  • Venetian: “Zanzibar”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Zanzibar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanzibar (syudad)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zanzibar”
  • Welsh: “Sansibar”
  • Welsh: “Zanzibar”
  • Western Frisian: “Sansibar”
  • Western Frisian: “Sânsibar”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Zanzibar”
  • Yue Chinese: “桑給巴爾市”
  • Zulu: “Zanzibar, Idolobhakazi”

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