Tshole-Shamba
Mafia Island or Chole Shamba is an island of The Mafia Archipelago located in Mafia District in the southern Pwani Region of Tanzania across the Mafia Channel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Chole Shamba”, “Mafia Island”, and “Tschole-Schamba”
- Historically known as: “Monfea Island”
Tshole-Shamba
- Category: landform
- Location: Coast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.85378° or 7° 51′ 14″ southLongitude
39.78041° or 39° 46′ 50″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)IATA airport code
MFAOpen location code
6G4X4QWJ+F5GeoNames ID
155410
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swahili—“Tshole-Shamba” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Мафия”
- Esperanto: “Mafia”
- Estonian: “Mafia”
- Finnish: “Mafia”
- French: “Île de Mafia”
- German: “Mafia”
- Italian: “Mafia”
- Lithuanian: “Mafijos sala”
- Polish: “Mafia”
- Russian: “Мафия”
- Swahili: “Mafia”
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