Mji Mpya
Mji Mpya is an administrative ward in Moshi District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 1.4 km2, and has an average elevation of 818 m. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 15,293.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moshi Airport and Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School.
Moshi Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: string bass dave, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moshi Airport is an airport in the Kilimanjaro Region of north-eastern Tanzania, serving the municipality of Moshi. The airport is 13.8 nautical miles east-northeast of the Kilimanjaro VOR/DME. Moshi Airport is situated 4 km west of Mji Mpya.
Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School
School
Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school, located near Moshi town, in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Female gender form about 97% of the students while the remaining are male population.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moshi and Rau.
Moshi
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
Moshi is a municipality and the capital of Kilimanjaro Region in the Northeastern Tanzania. As of 2017, the municipality has an estimated population of 201,150 and a population density of 3,409 persons per km2.
Rau
Village
Rau is an administrative ward in Moshi District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 3.8 km2, and has an average elevation of 897 m. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 9,137. Rau is situated 5 km north of Mji Mpya.
Karanga
Village
Karanga is a ward of Moshi Urban, in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Its name is derived from the Karanga River that passes through the ward. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 7,641 people in the ward, from 7,124 in 2012. Karanga is situated 6 km west of Mji Mpya.
Mji Mpya
- Type: Village with 16,600 residents
- Description: town and ward in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
- Categories: ward of Tanzania and locality
- Location: Moshi Municipal Council, Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-3.3499° or 3° 20′ 60″ southLongitude
37.3615° or 37° 21′ 41″ eastPopulation
16,600Elevation
802 metres (2,631 feet)Open location code
6G8VM926+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 9260293178OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11004821Wikidata ID
Q6885370
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swahili—“Mji Mpya” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mji Mpya”
- German: “Mji Mpya (Moshi)”
- Italian: “Mji Mpya”
- Swahili: “Mji Mpya”
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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 “Mji Mpya”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.