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Arusha

Arusha

Arusha is a city of approximately 416,000 people in the of . It is regarded as the gateway to the popular Northern Safari Circuit.
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  • Type: City with 618,000 residents
  • Description: city in Arusha Region, Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Aruscha” and “Arusha, Tanzania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium and The Arusha Hotel.

Stadium
Photo: richmal, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in ward of Arusha in of . It is named after the Tanzanian cleric, politician and poet Kaluta Amri Abeid and is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue for Arusha FC.

Hotel
is the oldest surviving hotel in the city of Arusha in Northern . Previously, it was known as New Arusha Hotel. It was built in 1894.

Tower
Photo: Tsturge, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kimandolu.

Village
is an administrative ward in the Arusha District of the of . It is roughly 6 km from the centre of Arusha town and lies between the Old Moshi Road and the Arusha-Himo highway, which leads directly to Moshi and .

Arusha

Latitude
-3.3697° or 3° 22′ 11″ south
Longitude
36.6881° or 36° 41′ 17″ east
Population
618,000
Elevation
1,415 metres (4,642 feet)
IATA airport code
ARK
United Nations Location Code
TZ ARK
Open location code
6G8RJMJQ+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255603098
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
161325
Wiki­data ID
Q4301
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Arusha” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arusha”
  • Albanian: “Arusha”
  • Arabic: “أروشا”
  • Armenian: “Արուշա”
  • Asturian: “Arusha”
  • Basque: “Arusha”
  • Belarusian: “Аруша”
  • Bengali: “আরুশা”
  • Breton: “Arusha”
  • Bulgarian: “Аруша”
  • Catalan: “Arusha”
  • Cebuano: “Arusha”
  • Chinese: “阿魯沙”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁沙”
  • Croatian: “Aruša”
  • Croatian: “Arusha”
  • Czech: “Arusha”
  • Danish: “Arusha”
  • Dutch: “Arusha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروشا”
  • Esperanto: “Arusha”
  • Esperanto: “Aruŝo”
  • Estonian: “Arusha”
  • Finnish: “Arusha”
  • French: “Arusha”
  • Galician: “Arusha”
  • Georgian: “არუშა”
  • German: “Arusha”
  • Greek: “Αρούσα”
  • Gujarati: “અરુશા”
  • Hausa: “Arusha”
  • Hebrew: “ארושה”
  • Hindi: “अरुषा”
  • Hungarian: “Arusha”
  • Indonesian: “Arusha”
  • Interlingue: “Arusha”
  • Irish: “Arusha”
  • Italian: “Arusha”
  • Japanese: “アルーシャ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arusha”
  • Kannada: “ಅರುಶ”
  • Korean: “아루샤”
  • Kotava: “Arusha”
  • Latvian: “Aruša”
  • Lithuanian: “Aruša”
  • Malagasy: “Arusha”
  • Malay: “Arusha”
  • Maori: “Arusha”
  • Marathi: “अरुशा”
  • Moksha: “Аруша”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arusha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arusha”
  • Norwegian: “Arusha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arusha”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੁਸ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “آروشا”
  • Polish: “Arusha”
  • Polish: “Arusza”
  • Portuguese: “Arusha”
  • Portuguese: “Aruxa”
  • Romanian: “Arusha”
  • Russian: “Аруша”
  • Scots: “Arusha”
  • Serbian: “Аруша”
  • Silesian: “Arusha”
  • Sinhala: “අරුෂා”
  • Slovak: “Arusha”
  • Slovenian: “Aruša”
  • Slovenian: “Arusha”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آروشا”
  • Spanish: “Arusha”
  • Swahili: “Arusha”
  • Swedish: “Arusha”
  • Tamil: “அருஷா”
  • Telugu: “ఆరుషా”
  • Thai: “อารูชา”
  • Tumbuka: “Arusha”
  • Turkish: “Arusha”
  • Ukrainian: “Аруша”
  • Urdu: “اروشا”
  • Venetian: “Arusha”
  • Vietnamese: “Arusha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arusha”
  • Western Mari: “Аруша”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿鲁沙”
  • Yoruba: “Arusha”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿魯沙”
  • Zulu: “Arusha”
  • “Arusha”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Arusha”. Photo: Phase9, CC BY-SA 3.0.