Ujiji
Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region. Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar.- Town
- …lies at an elevation of around 830 metres (2,720 feet)
- Description: city in Tanzania
- Also known as“Udidji”“Ugoi”
Places of Interest
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Kigoma Airport
Kigoma Airport is an airport in western Tanzania serving Kigoma.
3½ km northwest of Ujiji
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kigoma.
Ujiji
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Latitude
-4.90837° or 4° 54′ 30″ south
Longitude
29.69203° or 29° 41′ 31″ east
Open location code
6G7F3MRR+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Ujiji” goes by many names.
OedjidjiAfrikaans
أوجيجيArabic
UjijiAsturian
УджыджыBelarusian
烏吉吉Chinese
UdžidžiCzech
UjijiDutch
UjijiEstonian
ΟυτζίτζιGreek
Amfani da shiHausa
אוג’יג’יHebrew
UjijiItalian
ウジジJapanese
우지지Korean
UdžidžisLithuanian
UjijiNorwegian
UjijiNorwegian Bokmål
UjijiNorwegian Nynorsk
UjijiPolish
UjijiRomanian
УджиджиRussian
UjijiSwahili
UjijiSwedish
UjijiTurkish
УджиджиUkrainian
УджіджіUkrainian
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