Musoma

Musoma pronunciation is a town in the east shore of Lake Victoria of . It is the capital of , one of the administrative Regions of Tanzania. It also serves as the administrative centre of Musoma Rural District and .
Photo: Ikiwaner, GFDL.
  • Type: City with 164,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Mazama”, “Misoma”, “Musoma Mjini”, “Musome”, “Muzoma”, and “Wilaya ya Musoma mjini”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Musoma Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport in northern serving Musoma and the surrounding .

Musoma

Latitude
-1.4998° or 1° 29′ 59″ south
Longitude
33.8083° or 33° 48′ 30″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
1,148 metres (3,766 feet)
IATA airport code
MUZ
UN/LOCODE
TZ MUZ
Open location code
6GCMGR25+38
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Musoma” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሙሶማ”
  • Arabic: “موسوما”
  • Asturian: “Musoma”
  • Azerbaijani: “Musoma”
  • Bengali: “মুসোমা”
  • Bengali: “মোসুমা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мусома”
  • Cebuano: “Musoma”
  • Chinese: “穆索馬”
  • Chinese: “穆索马”
  • Croatian: “Musoma”
  • Danish: “Musoma”
  • Dutch: “Musoma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موسوما”
  • Esperanto: “Musoma”
  • Esperanto: “Musomo”
  • Estonian: “Musoma”
  • Finnish: “Musoma”
  • French: “Musoma”
  • German: “Musoma”
  • Greek: “Μουσόμα”
  • Gujarati: “મુસોમા”
  • Hausa: “Musoma”
  • Hindi: “मुसोमा”
  • Hungarian: “Musoma”
  • Indonesian: “Musoma”
  • Irish: “Musoma”
  • Italian: “Musoma”
  • Japanese: “ムソマ”
  • Javanese: “Musoma”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯೂಸೋಮ”
  • Kazakh: “Musoma”
  • Kirghiz: “Musoma”
  • Korean: “무소마”
  • Kotava: “Musoma”
  • Latvian: “Musoma”
  • Lithuanian: “Musoma”
  • Malay: “Musoma”
  • Marathi: “मुसोमा”
  • Moksha: “Мусома”
  • Mongolian: “Мусома”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musoma”
  • Norwegian: “Musoma”
  • Oromo: “Musoma”
  • Panjabi: “موسوما”
  • Persian: “ماسوما”
  • Polish: “Musoma”
  • Portuguese: “Musoma”
  • Pushto: “موسوما”
  • Romanian: “Musoma”
  • Russian: “Мусома”
  • Sinhala: “මුසොමා”
  • Slovenian: “Musoma”
  • Somali: “Musoma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماسوما”
  • Spanish: “Musoma”
  • Swahili: “Musoma”
  • Swedish: “Musoma”
  • Tajik: “Musoma”
  • Tamil: “முசோமா”
  • Tatar: “Musoma”
  • Telugu: “ముసోమా”
  • Thai: “มูโซมา”
  • Turkish: “Musoma”
  • Ukrainian: “Мусома”
  • Urdu: “موسوما”
  • Uzbek: “Musoma”
  • Venetian: “Musoma”
  • Vietnamese: “Musoma”
  • Yoruba: “Musoma”
  • Zulu: “Musoma”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Mukendo and Nyamatare.

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Highlights: Magazeti Centre and Kitaji Primary Court.

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