Rubya
Rubya is the site of a Catholic Church mission to the south of Bukoba near the west bank of Lake Victoria in Muleba District, Kagera Region, Tanzania. A seminary was established at Rubya in 1904, one of the first in German East Africa, as it then was.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Rubya
- Type: Village
- Description: mission in Kagera, Tanzania
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kashasha, Muleba District Council, Kagera, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.75023° or 1° 45′ 1″ southLongitude
31.61661° or 31° 36′ 60″ eastElevation
1,491 metres (4,892 feet)Open location code
6GCH6JX8+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 3624546343OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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