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, In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: city in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Udidji” and “Ugoi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Tanganyika Stadium.
Lake Tanganyika Stadium
Stadium
Lake Tanganyika Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kigoma-Ujiji District, Kigoma, Tanzania. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. Lake Tanganyika Stadium is situated 3½ km west of Ujiji.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kigoma.
Kigoma
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kigoma is a city in Tanzania. Beautifully situated on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Capital of the Western Region. Main railway terminus on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Ujiji
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Majengo, Kigoma Ujiji Municipal, Kigoma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.90837° or 4° 54′ 30″ southLongitude
29.69203° or 29° 41′ 31″ eastElevation
803 metres (2,635 feet)Open location code
6G7F3MRR+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 965845175OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Ujiji” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oedjidji”
- Arabic: “أوجيجي”
- Asturian: “Ujiji”
- Belarusian: “Уджыджы”
- Chinese: “烏吉吉”
- Czech: “Udžidži”
- Dutch: “Ujiji”
- Estonian: “Ujiji”
- French: “Ujiji”
- German: “Udschidschi”
- German: “Ujiji”
- Greek: “Ουτζίτζι”
- Hebrew: “אוג’יג’י”
- Hebrew: “אוגיגי”
- Italian: “Ujiji”
- Japanese: “ウジジ”
- Korean: “우지지”
- Lithuanian: “Udžidžis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ujiji”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ujiji”
- Norwegian: “Ujiji”
- Polish: “Ujiji”
- Portuguese: “Ujiji”
- Romanian: “Ujiji”
- Russian: “Уджиджи”
- Spanish: “Ujiji”
- Swahili: “Ujiji”
- Swedish: “Ujiji”
- Turkish: “Ujiji”
- Ukrainian: “Уджиджи”
- Ukrainian: “Уджіджі”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ujiji”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.