Kwale Island

Kwale Island is a protected, seasonally inhabited island in the under the Tanga Marine Reserves with the IUCN category II located inside Kwale ward in of in .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Mkinga District, Tanga Region, Tanzania
  • Also known as: Kwale Island, Mkinga” and “Mnasini

Kwale Island

Latitude
-4.96926° or 4° 58′ 9″ south
Longitude
39.16408° or 39° 9′ 51″ east
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
6G7X25J7+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9486288676
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
156297
Wiki­data ID
Q49649983
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swahili—“Kwale Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Kwale Island
  • Swahili: Kwale (Kisiju)
  • Swahili: Kwale

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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 “Kwale Island”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.