Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Ngorongoro District, 180 km west of Arusha City in Arusha Region, within the Crater Highlands geological area of northeastern Tanzania.
- Crater with an elevation of around 1,700 metres (5,580 feet)
- …is also known as “Ngorongoro”
- Description: inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera
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Latitude
-3.16667° or 3° 10′ south
Longitude
35.58333° or 35° 35′ east
Open location code
6G8QRHMM+88
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Ngorongoro Crater” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cràter del Ngorongoro”
- Cebuano: “Ngorongoro Crater”
- Chinese: “恩戈羅恩戈羅火山口”
- Dutch: “Ngorongoro-krateret”
- French: “Cratère du Ngorongoro”
- German: “Ngorongoro Krater”
- Hebrew: “מכתש נגורונגורו”
- Japanese: “ンゴロンゴロクレーター”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngorongoro-krateret”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Verdens åttende under”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ngorongorokrateret”
- Norwegian: “Ngorongoro-krateret”
- Spanish: “Cráter del Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Ngorongoro”
- Swahili: “Kasoko ya Ngorongoro”
- Swahili: “Kreta ya Ngorongoro”
- Swedish: “Ngorongorokratern”
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