Usambara Mountains
Northeast Tanzania stretches from the northern border to Kenya to Dar es Salaam in the south, borders on the Indian Ocean in the east and the west with the area of Kilimanjaro.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,161 metres
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “東ウサンバラ”
Usambara Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Tanga, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.75° or 4° 45′ south
Longitude
38.5° or 38° 30′ east
Elevation
1,161 metres (3,809 feet)
Open location code
6G7W7G22+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Usambara Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال أوسامبارا”
- Asturian: “Montes Usambara”
- Bulgarian: “Усамбара”
- Catalan: “muntanyes Usambara”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Usambara”
- Cebuano: “Usambara Mountains”
- Central Kurdish: “چیاکانی ئوسامبارا”
- Chinese: “烏桑巴拉山脈”
- Dutch: “Usambaragebergte”
- Esperanto: “Usambaraj Montoj”
- Finnish: “Usambara”
- French: “Monts Usambara”
- German: “Usambara-Berge”
- Greek: “Ουσαμπάρα Όρη”
- Hebrew: “אוסאמברה”
- Italian: “Monti Usambara”
- Japanese: “ウサンバラ山地”
- Kinyarwanda: “Imisozi ya Usambara”
- Kotava: “Usambara (jaka)”
- Kotava: “Usambara”
- Ladin: “Usambara-Berge”
- Lithuanian: “Usambaros kalnai”
- Macedonian: “Усамбара”
- Northern Frisian: “Usambara-Berger”
- Persian: “کوههای اوسامبارا”
- Russian: “Усамбара”
- Spanish: “Montañas Usambara”
- Swahili: “Milima ya Usambara”
- Swedish: “Usambarabergen”
- Ukrainian: “Усамбара”
- Venetian: “Monti Usambara”
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Places to explore: Mgwashi and Mzinga.
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Highlights: Zumbu and Nengoma.
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