Mungonya
Mungonya is an administrative ward in Kigoma District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 40.2 km2, and has an average elevation of 852 m. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 12,644.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.
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.
Mungonya
- Type: Neighborhood with 17,600 residents
- Description: ward in Kigoma District, Kigoma Region
- Categories: ward of Tanzania and locality
- Location: Kigoma Rural, Kigoma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.8824° or 4° 52′ 57″ southLongitude
29.6794° or 29° 40′ 46″ eastPopulation
17,600Elevation
807 metres (2,648 feet)Open location code
6G7F4M9H+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 7922247281OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
11004685Wikidata ID
Q20621419
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swahili—“Mungonya” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mungonya”
- German: “Mungonya”
- Italian: “Mungonya”
- Swahili: “Mungonya”
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Highlights include Kigoma Airport and Calgary chapel.
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