Dar es Salaam Region

Dar es Salaam Region is one of 's 31 administrative regions and is located on the east coast of the country. The region covers an area of 1,599 km.
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  • Type: region of Tanzania with 2,790,000 residents
  • Description: region of Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Dar”, “Daressalaam”, “Regió Dar es Salaam”, “Region de Dar es Salaam”, “Región de Dar es Salaam”, “Region de Dar es-Salam”, “Regiono Dar es Salaam”, “Vùng Dar es Salaam”, “Вилояти Дар ес Салаам”, “Вилояти Дорассалом”, and “Вилояти Драссалом”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Julius Nyerere International Airport and Dar es Salaam station (TAZARA).

Aerodrome
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is the…

Railway station
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is a railway station, which is situated 6 km east of Dar es Salaam Region.

, also Kinyerezi… is situated 5 km southwest of Dar es Salaam Region.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dar es Salaam and Ukonga.

Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was founded in 1862 by Sultan Seyyid…

Suburb
is an administrative ward of the Ilala… is situated 5 km southwest of Dar es Salaam Region.

Locality
is an administrative ward… is situated 9 km northeast of Dar es Salaam Region.

Dar es Salaam Region

Latitude
-6.8352° or 6° 50′ 7″ south
Longitude
39.196° or 39° 11′ 46″ east
Population
2,790,000
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Open location code
6G5X557W+W9
Geo­Names ID
160260
Wiki­data ID
Q557539
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Dar es Salaam Region” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዳር ኤስ ሳላም ክልል”
  • Arabic: “إقليم دار السلام”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Dar es Salaam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dar əs Salam regionu”
  • Bashkir: “Дар-әс-Сәләм”
  • Basque: “Dar es Salaam (eskualdea)”
  • Basque: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Belarusian: “Дар-эс-Салам (вобласць)”
  • Belarusian: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Bengali: “দারুস-সালাম অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Дар ес Салаам”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Dar al-Salaam”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Dar es Salaam”
  • Cebuano: “Dar es Salaam Region”
  • Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Dar es Salaam”
  • Chinese: “三兰港区”
  • Chinese: “三蘭港區”
  • Chinese: “达累斯萨拉姆区”
  • Chinese: “達累斯薩拉姆區”
  • Croatian: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Danish: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Dutch: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Daresalamo”
  • Finnish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • French: “Dar es Salaam”
  • French: “Dar es Salam”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Dar es Salaam”
  • Georgian: “დარ-ეს-სალამის ოლქი”
  • German: “Daressalam”
  • German: “Region Daressalam”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Νταρ ες Σαλαάμ”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Νταρ ες Σαλάαμ”
  • Gujarati: “દર એસ સલામ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Dar es Salaam Yanki”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Dar es Salaam”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז דאר א-סלאם”
  • Hindi: “दार अस सलाम क्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Dar es Salaam”
  • Irish: “Réigiún Dárasalám”
  • Italian: “regione di Dar es Salaam”
  • Italian: “Regione di Dar es Salaam”
  • Japanese: “ダルエスサラーム州”
  • Javanese: “Dar es Salaam Wilayah”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ ಎಸ್ ಸಲಾಮ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Dar es Salaam Region”
  • Kirghiz: “Дар-эс-Салам Аймагы”
  • Korean: “다르에스살람주”
  • Kotava: “TanzaniaDarEsSalaamGola”
  • Latvian: “Dāresalāmas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Dar es Salamo regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Дар ес Салам”
  • Malay: “Dar es Salaam Region”
  • Marathi: “दार एस सलाम प्रदेश”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Dar es Salaam Region for Tanzania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Norwegian: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Oromo: “Dar es Salaam Naannoo”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਰ ਈ ਸਲਾਮ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “استان دارالسلام”
  • Polish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Portuguese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Pushto: “دار السلام سیمه”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Dar es Salaam”
  • Russian: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Serbian: “Dar es Salam”
  • Serbian: “Дар ес Салам”
  • Sinhala: “ඩාර් එස් සලාම් කලාපය”
  • Somali: “Dar es Salaam Gobolka”
  • Spanish: “Región de Dar es-Salam”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam”
  • Swedish: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Dorussalom”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Доруссалом”
  • Tamil: “டார் எஸ் ஸலாம் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Dar es Səlam Bölgəsi”
  • Telugu: “డార్ ఎస్ సలామ్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “เขตดาเรสซาราม”
  • Turkish: “Dar es Salaam Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Дар-ес-Салам”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Дар-ес-Салам”
  • Urdu: “دارالسلام علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “دَر اس سلام ریجن”
  • Uzbek: “Dar es Salom Mintaqasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Western Panjabi: “داراسلام”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Dar es Salaam”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Ugombolwa and Tabata.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Lake Tenge and Madafu.

Tanzania: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: Dar es Salaam and Mount Kilimanjaro.

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