Chwaka
Chwaka is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar. It lies on the island's east coast, directly east of the capital, Zanzibar City, along the coast of Chwaka Bay, near the boundary of Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: town on Unguja in Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Also known as: “Chakwa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uroa and Pingwe.
Uroa
Village
Photo: Lox, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uroa, sometimes spelled Urowa, is a small, rural coastal village on central eastern parts of Unguja in Tanzania. It is situated in the Chwaka Constituency in the Unguja South Region. Uroa is situated 8 km north of Chwaka.
Pingwe
Village
Pingwe is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, which is part of Zanzibar. It is one of two villages located in the east of the island at the northern tip of Michamvi Peninsula. Pingwe is situated 9 km east of Chwaka.
Chwaka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Chwaka, Kati, Zanzibar Central/South, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-6.16521° or 6° 9′ 55″ southLongitude
39.43513° or 39° 26′ 7″ eastElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
6G5XRCMP+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 3607854202OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Chwaka” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chwaka”
- French: “Chwaka”
- Hebrew: “צ’וואקה”
- Irish: “Chwaka”
- Italian: “Chwaka”
- Russian: “Чвака”
- Swahili: “Chwaka”
- Ukrainian: “Чвака”
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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 “Chwaka”. Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.