Mtwara Airport

Mtwara Airport is an airport in southern serving the town of .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport
  • Also known as: “HTMT”, “Mtwara”, and “MYW”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mtwara and Mikindani.

Photo: VonTasha, CC BY 3.0.
Pronunciation is the capital city of in southeastern . In the 1940s, it was planned and constructed as the export facility for the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme, but was somewhat neglected when the scheme was abandoned in 1951.

is a historic coastal town in the Mtwara-Mikindani District of in Tanzania. The name comes from the Swahili word mikinda which means "young coconut trees".

Mtwara Airport

Latitude
-10.34139° or 10° 20′ 29″ south
Longitude
40.17981° or 40° 10′ 47″ east
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
IATA airport code
MYW
ICAO airport code
HTMT
Open location code
5HX2M55H+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1276568782
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6297363
Wiki­data ID
Q1432100
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mtwara Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار متوارا”
  • Cebuano: “Mtwara Airport”
  • Chinese: “姆特瓦拉机场”
  • Esperanto: “Flughaveno Mtwara”
  • French: “aérodrome de Mtwara”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Mtwara”
  • French: “MTWARA”
  • German: “Flughafen Mtwara”
  • German: “HTMT”
  • Indonesian: “HTMT”
  • Indonesian: “MYW”
  • Japanese: “ムトワラ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Mtwara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “HTMT”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mtwara lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “MYW”
  • Norwegian: “Mtwara lufthavn”
  • Persian: “HTMT”
  • Persian: “MYW”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه امتوارا”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Mtwara”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Mtwara”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Mtwara”
  • Swahili: “Mtwara Airport”
  • Swahili: “Uwanja wa ndege wa Mtwara”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Mtwara”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mtawanya dam and Mtwara Bus Station.

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