Songea District Council
Songea Rural District is one of five districts in the Ruvuma Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Morogoro Region, to the east by the Namtumbo District, to the south by the Songea Urban District, to the west by the Mbinga District and to the Northwest by the Iringa Region.- Type: district of Tanzania with 178,000 residents
- Description: district of Tanzania
- Also known as: “Songea DC”, “Songea District”, “Songea Rural”, and “Songea Rural District”
Songea District Council
- Location: Ruvuma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-10.3906° or 10° 23′ 26″ south
Longitude
35.4° or 35° 24′ 0″ east
Population
178,000
Elevation
866 metres (2,841 feet)
Open location code
5GXQJC52+Q2
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Songea District Council” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Songea (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Songea”
- German: “Songea Rural”
- German: “Songea”
- Italian: “Distretto rurale di Songea”
- Spanish: “Songea (valiato)”
- Spanish: “Songea”
- Swahili: “Songea Vijijini”
- Vietnamese: “Songea Rural”
- Zulu: “Songea Rural District”
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