Tanganyika
Tanganyika is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba provinces are the result of the splitting up of the former Katanga province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood with 3,040,000 residents
- Description: province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Tanganika” and “Tanganyika Province”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalemie.
Kalemie
Photo: Lucyin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kalemie, formerly Albertville or Albertstad, is a city on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lukuga River, that drains Lake Tanganyika to the Lualaba River, runs through the city.
Tanganyika
- Categories: province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-5.9111° or 5° 54′ 40″ southLongitude
29.1956° or 29° 11′ 44″ eastPopulation
3,040,000Elevation
767 metres (2,516 feet)Open location code
6G6F35QW+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2482247693OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
205253Wikidata ID
Q826585
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zulu—“Tanganyika” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tanganyika (probintzia)”
- Basque: “Tanganyika”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Танганьіка”
- Belarusian: “Танганьіка”
- Bulgarian: “Танганика”
- Catalan: “província de Tanganyika”
- Cebuano: “Kongolo Tanganyika District”
- Cebuano: “Tanganika”
- Chinese: “坦噶尼喀省”
- Danish: “Tanganyika (provins)”
- Danish: “Tanganyika”
- Dutch: “Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “bukata wa Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “etúká ya Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “jimbo la Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “kizûnga Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “mkoa wa Tanganyika”
- Esperanto: “provinco Tanganjiko”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Tanganjiko”
- Esperanto: “Tanganjika provinco”
- Esperanto: “Tanganjiko”
- Finnish: “Tanganyika”
- French: “Tanganika”
- French: “Tanganyika”
- Georgian: “ტანგანიიკის პროვინცია”
- German: “Tanganjika”
- German: “Tanganyika”
- Hungarian: “Tanganyika tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Tanganyika”
- Italian: “provincia di Tanganyika”
- Italian: “Provincia di Tanganyika”
- Japanese: “タンガニーカ州”
- Korean: “탕가니카주”
- Latvian: “Tangaņika (province)”
- Latvian: “Tangaņika”
- Lingala: “Etuka ya Tanganyika”
- Lithuanian: “Tanganikos provincija”
- Mingrelian: “ტანგანიიკაშ პროვინცია”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanganyika”
- Norwegian: “Tanganyika”
- Persian: “استان تانگانیکا”
- Polish: “Tanganika”
- Portuguese: “Tanganhica”
- Portuguese: “Tanganyika”
- Romanian: “Provincia Tanganyika”
- Russian: “Танганьика”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanganyika”
- Slovenian: “Tanganjika”
- Slovenian: “Tanganyika”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Tanganica”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Tanganyika”
- Spanish: “Tanganyka”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Tanganyika”
- Swahili: “Tanganika”
- Swedish: “Tanganyika”
- Ukrainian: “Танганьїка”
- Walloon: “Province do Tanganyika”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tanganyika”
- Welsh: “Talaith Tanganyika”
- Wu Chinese: “坦噶尼喀省”
- Zulu: “Tanganyika Province”
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