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Tanga

Tanga Region is one of 's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of 26,667 km2. The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of .
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  • Type: State with 2,050,000 residents
  • Description: region of Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Tanga Region”

Tanga

Latitude
-5.2021° or 5° 12′ 8″ south
Longitude
38.2276° or 38° 13′ 39″ east
Population
2,050,000
Elevation
423 metres (1,388 feet)
Open location code
6G6WQ6XH+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353392143
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
149595
Wiki­data ID
Q389737
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Tanga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم تانغا”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Tanga”
  • Asturian: “Tanga”
  • Basque: “Tanga eskualdea”
  • Bengali: “তাংগা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Танга”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Tanga”
  • Cebuano: “Tanga Region”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی تانگا”
  • Chinese: “坦噶区”
  • Chinese: “坦噶區”
  • Croatian: “Tanga”
  • Danish: “Tanga”
  • Dutch: “Tanga”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Tanga”
  • Estonian: “Tanga piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Tangan alue”
  • French: “Tanga”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Tanga”
  • Georgian: “ტანგის ოლქი”
  • German: “Tanga”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Τάνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “તંગા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז טנגה”
  • Hindi: “टंगा क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Tanga régió”
  • Igbo: “Tanga”
  • Indonesian: “Region Tanga”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Tanga”
  • Italian: “regione di Tanga”
  • Italian: “Regione di Tanga”
  • Japanese: “タンガ州”
  • Kannada: “ಟಂಗಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “탕가주”
  • Kotava: “TanzaniaTangaGola”
  • Latvian: “Tangas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Tangos regionas”
  • Malay: “Tanga Region”
  • Marathi: “तंगा प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tanga (Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanga-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Tanga”
  • Persian: “استان تانگا”
  • Polish: “Tanga”
  • Portuguese: “Tanga”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Tanga”
  • Russian: “Танга”
  • Serbian: “Танга”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්ගා කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Tanga”
  • Spanish: “Region de Tanga”
  • Spanish: “Región de Tanga”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Tanga”
  • Swedish: “Tanga”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Танга”
  • Tamil: “தங்கா பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “టాంగా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “ทังกา”
  • Turkish: “Tanga bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Tanga Region”
  • Ukrainian: “Танга”
  • Urdu: “تانگا علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “ٹانگہ ریجن”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanga”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹانگا”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Tanga”
  • Yue Chinese: “坦噶區”
  • Zulu: “Tanga Region”

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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 “Tanga”. Photo: David Ashby, CC BY 2.0.