Pemba South

Pemba South Region or South Pemba Region is one of the 31 regions of Tanzania, covering an area of 332 km2. The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation-state of .
  • Type: State with 195,000 residents
  • Description: region of Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Nam Pemba”, “Pemba South Region”, “Region de Pemba South”, “Sør-Pemba”, “South Pemba”, “South Pemba Region”, “Sud-Pemba”, “TZ-10”, “Южная Пемба”, “پیمبا جنوبی ریجن”, and “奔巴南區”

Pemba South

Latitude
-5.285° or 5° 17′ 6″ south
Longitude
39.7131° or 39° 42′ 47″ east
Population
195,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
IATA airport code
PMA
Open location code
6G6XPP77+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Pemba South” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፔምባ ደቡብ”
  • Arabic: “إقليم جنوب بيمبا”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de South Pemba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pemba Cənub”
  • Bengali: “পেম্বা দক্ষিণ”
  • Bengali: “সাউথ পেম্বা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Пемба-юг”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Пемба”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Pemba Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Pemba South Region”
  • Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Habagatan na Pemba”
  • Chinese: “南奔巴区”
  • Chinese: “南奔巴區”
  • Croatian: “Pemba Jug”
  • Danish: “Pemba Kusini”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Pemba”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Suda Pembo”
  • Estonian: “Lõuna-Pemba piirkond”
  • Finnish: “South Pemban maakunta”
  • French: “Pemba Sud”
  • Galician: “Pemba Sur”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი პემბა”
  • German: “Pemba Kusini”
  • German: “Pemba Süd”
  • German: “Süd-Pemba”
  • Greek: “Πέμπα”
  • Gujarati: “દક્ષિણ પેમ્બા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Pemba Kudu”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Kudancin pemba”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिण पेम्बा क्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Region Pemba Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Pemba Selatan”
  • Italian: “regione di Pemba Sud”
  • Italian: “Regione di Pemba Sud”
  • Japanese: “ペンバ南部”
  • Japanese: “ペンバ南部州”
  • Javanese: “Pemba Kidul”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಪೆಂಬಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Pemba South”
  • Kirghiz: “Pemba Түштүк”
  • Korean: “펨바 남부주”
  • Kotava: “TanzaniaPembaSouthGola”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidpembas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietinis Pembos regionas”
  • Malay: “Pemba Selatan”
  • Malay: “South Pemba Region”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण पेम्बा प्रदेश”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “South Pemba Region for Tanzania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pemba Süüd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pemba Kusini”
  • Norwegian: “Pemba Kusini”
  • Oromo: “Pemba Kibbaa”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੰਬਾ ਦੱਖਣ”
  • Persian: “استان پمبای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “پمبا جنوبی”
  • Polish: “Pemba Południowa”
  • Portuguese: “Pemba Sul”
  • Pushto: “پمبا سویل”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Pemba South”
  • Russian: “Пемба Южная”
  • Serbian: “Pemba jug”
  • Serbian: “Пемба југ”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු පෙම්බා කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Pemba Kusini”
  • Somali: “Pemba Koonfur”
  • Spanish: “Pemba Sur”
  • Spanish: “Región de Pemba South”
  • Spanish: “Región de Pemba Sur”
  • Swahili: “Kusini Pemba”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kusini Pemba”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Pemba Kusini”
  • Swedish: “Södra Pemba”
  • Tajik: “Pemba Jonub”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Çonubi Pemba”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ҷонуби Пемба”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு பெம்பா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Pemba Cənub”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Пемба”
  • Telugu: “దక్షిణ పెంబా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “เซาต์ เพมบา”
  • Turkish: “South Pemba Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Пемба Південна”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Південна Пемба”
  • Urdu: “پیمبا جنوبی علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Pemba Janub”
  • Vietnamese: “Pemba South”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھلواں پمبا”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Pemba Gúúsù”
  • Yue Chinese: “南奔巴區”
  • Zulu: “Pemba South Region”

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Places to explore: Tundaua and Wambaa.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Chake Chake Hospital and Pemba History Museum.

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