Geita

Geita Pronunciation is a city and regional capital of in northwestern . The city is known for its gold trade. Geita, with a population of 318,006, is located in the centre of a gold mining area.
  • City with 318,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,268 metres (4,160 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code GIT
  • Description: town and capital of Geita Region, Tanzania

Geita

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Latitude
-2.8708° or 2° 52′ 15″ south
Longitude
32.2341° or 32° 14′ 3″ east
UN/LOCODE
TZ GIT
Open location code
6G9J46HM+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Geita” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ገይታ”
  • Arabic: “جيتا”
  • Arabic: “غيتا”
  • Asturian: “Geita”
  • Azerbaijani: “Geita”
  • Bengali: “গেইটা”
  • Catalan: “Geita”
  • Cebuano: “Geita”
  • Chinese: “盖塔”
  • Chinese: “蓋塔”
  • Dutch: “Geita”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيتا”
  • Esperanto: “Geita”
  • Finnish: “Geita”
  • French: “Geita”
  • German: “Geita”
  • Hausa: “Geita”
  • Hindi: “गेइटा”
  • Indonesian: “Geita”
  • Italian: “Geita”
  • Japanese: “ゲイタ”
  • Javanese: “Geita”
  • Kazakh: “Геита”
  • Kirghiz: “Гейта”
  • Malay: “Geita”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Geita”
  • Oromo: “Geita”
  • Panjabi: “گیٹا”
  • Persian: “گیتا”
  • Polish: “Geita (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Geita”
  • Portuguese: “Geita”
  • Pushto: “ګیتا”
  • Romanian: “Geita”
  • Russian: “Геита”
  • Somali: “Geita”
  • Spanish: “Geita”
  • Swahili: “Geita”
  • Tajik: “Геита”
  • Tatar: “Geita”
  • Turkish: “Geita”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґеіта”
  • Urdu: “گیتا”
  • Urdu: “گیٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Geita”
  • Yue Chinese: “蓋塔”

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