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.Photo: Grahampurse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Crater
- Description: inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera
- Also known as: “Ngorongoro”
Ngorongoro Crater
- Categories: caldera and landform
- Location: Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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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: “Cratere du Ngorongoro”
- French: “cratère du Ngorongoro”
- French: “Cratère du ngorongoro”
- French: “Cratère du Ngorongoro”
- French: “Cratère Du Ngorongoro”
- German: “Ngorongoro Krater”
- Hebrew: “מכתש נגורונגורו”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngorongoro-krateret”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngorongorokrateret”
- 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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