Mwandiga
Mwandiga is an administrative ward in Kigoma District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 40.5 km2, and has an average elevation of 860 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 16,800 residents
- Description: ward in Kigoma District, Kigoma Region
- Also known as: “Mandyga” and “Miwandica”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kigoma and Ujiji.
Kigoma
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kigoma is a city in Tanzania. Beautifully situated on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Capital of the Western Region. Main railway terminus on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Ujiji
Town
Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region. Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar, In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000. Ujiji is situated 9 km southeast of Mwandiga.
Mwandiga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mwandiga, Kigoma Rural, Kigoma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.83615° or 4° 50′ 10″ southLongitude
29.66038° or 29° 39′ 37″ eastPopulation
16,800Elevation
871 metres (2,858 feet)Open location code
6G7F5M76+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3783017762OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
153709Wikidata ID
Q20621755
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swahili—“Mwandiga” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mwandiga”
- Italian: “Mwandiga”
- Swahili: “Mwandiga”
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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 “Mwandiga”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.