Rau
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School.
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 Karanga.
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 km) and is the smallest municipality in Tanzania by area.
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 southwest of Rau.
Rau
- Type: Village
- 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
-3.3091° or 3° 18′ 33″ southLongitude
37.3454° or 37° 20′ 44″ eastElevation
895 metres (2,936 feet)Open location code
6G8VM8RW+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 8019687368OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From German to Swahili—“Rau” goes by many names.
- German: “Rau (Moshi)”
- German: “Rau”
- Italian: “Rau”
- Swahili: “Rau”
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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 “Rau”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.