Buhanda
Buhanda is an administrative ward in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 5.5 km2, and has an average elevation of 864 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Tanganyika Stadium.
Lake Tanganyika Stadium
Stadium
Lake Tanganyika Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kigoma-Ujiji District, Kigoma, Tanzania. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. Lake Tanganyika Stadium is situated 4 km south of Buhanda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kigoma and Ujiji.
Kigoma
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kigoma is a city in Tanzania. Beautifully situated on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Capital of the Western Region. Main railway terminus on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Ujiji
Town
Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region. Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar, In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000. Ujiji is situated 6 km southeast of Buhanda.
Buhanda
- Type: Locality with 16,300 residents
- Description: ward in Kigoma-Ujiji District, Kigoma Region
- Category: ward of Tanzania
- Location: Kigoma Ujiji Municipal, Kigoma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swahili—“Buhanda” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Buhanda”
- German: “Buhanda”
- Italian: “Buhanda”
- Swahili: “Buhanda”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Buhanda”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.