Lindi
Nachingwea District Council
Nambambo

Nachingwea

Nachingwea is a town in the of southern . It was the terminus of a railway built for the infamous, ill-fated Tanganyika groundnut scheme.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 21,000 residents
  • Description: Small town in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Nachingwa” and “Nachingwea, Tanzania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nachingwea Airport.

Aerodrome
is a domestic airport locate in south , . The airport serves the town Nachingwea. It is on the northeast side of the town.

Nachingwea

Latitude
-10.36841° or 10° 22′ 6″ south
Longitude
38.76115° or 38° 45′ 40″ east
Population
21,000
Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)
IATA airport code
NCH
United Nations Location Code
TZ NCH
Open location code
5GXWJQJ6+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258923620
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
877702
Wiki­data ID
Q15260737
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Romanian—“Nachingwea” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Nachingwea, Tanzania”
  • Cebuano: “Nachingwea”
  • Dutch: “Nachingwea, Tanzania”
  • French: “Nachingwea”
  • German: “Nachingwea”
  • Irish: “Nachingwea”
  • Romanian: “Nachingwea”

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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 “Nachingwea”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.