Geita
Geita is a city and regional capital of Geita Region in northwestern Tanzania. 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.Geita
- Type: City with 318,000 residents
- Description: town and capital of Geita Region, Tanzania
- Category: locality
- Location: Mtakuja, Geita District Council, Geita, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-2.8708° or 2° 52′ 15″ southLongitude
32.2341° or 32° 14′ 3″ eastPopulation
318,000Elevation
1,268 metres (4,160 feet)IATA airport code
GITUnited Nations Location Code
TZ GITOpen location code
6G9J46HM+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 258307668OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
159908Wikidata ID
Q4622385
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Satellite Map
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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: “گیٹا”
- Uzbek: “Geita”
- Yue Chinese: “蓋塔”
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