Kihesa
Kihesa is an administrative ward in the Iringa Urban district of the Iringa Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 19,040 people in the ward, from 18,196 in 2012.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iringa and Mkwawa.
Iringa
Photo: Matt Crypto, Public domain.
Iringa is a town in the Southern Highlands, Tanzania. It’s a district capital, an important agricultural center, and the gateway for visiting Ruaha National Park or other Southern circuit safari parks.
Mkwawa
Suburb
Mkwawa is an administrative ward in the Iringa Urban district of the Iringa Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 10,122 people in the ward, from 9,673 in 2012. Mkwawa is situated 4 km southwest of Kihesa.
Mwangata
Suburb
Mwangata is an administrative ward in the Iringa Urban district of the Iringa Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 14,111 people in the ward, from 13,486 in 2012. Mwangata is situated 5 km southwest of Kihesa.
Kihesa
- Type: Suburb with 22,300 residents
- Description: ward in Iringa, Tanzania
- Categories: ward of Tanzania and locality
- Location: Iringa Urban District, Iringa, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-7.7451° or 7° 44′ 43″ southLongitude
35.7125° or 35° 42′ 45″ eastPopulation
22,300Elevation
1,581 metres (5,187 feet)Open location code
6G4Q7P36+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 7308601104OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
11004325Wikidata ID
Q6406017
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swahili—“Kihesa” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kihesa”
- German: “Kihesa”
- Italian: “Kihesa”
- Swahili: “Kihesa”
- “Kihesa”
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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 “Kihesa”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.