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 a four-star hotel located in Arusha, Northern . Built in 1894, it is one of the oldest hotels in . The hotel is located near the Arusha Clock Tower, which was built to designate the midway point of the 10,000 km distance between and .

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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Arusha” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arusha”
  • Albanian: “Arusha”
  • Amharic: “አሩሻ”
  • Arabic: “أروشا”
  • Armenian: “Արուշա”
  • Asturian: “Arusha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aruşa”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Arusha”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arusha”
  • Kannada: “ಅರುಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Аруша”
  • Kirghiz: “Аруша”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Arusha”
  • Panjabi: “اروشا”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੁਸ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “آروشا”
  • Polish: “Arusha”
  • Polish: “Arusza”
  • Portuguese: “Arusha”
  • Portuguese: “Aruxa”
  • Pushto: “اروشا”
  • Romanian: “Arusha”
  • Russian: “Аруша”
  • Scots: “Arusha”
  • Serbian: “Аруша”
  • Silesian: “Arusha”
  • Sinhala: “අරුෂා”
  • Slovak: “Arusha”
  • Slovenian: “Aruša”
  • Slovenian: “Arusha”
  • Somali: “Arusha”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آروشا”
  • Spanish: “Arusha”
  • Swahili: “Arusha, Tanzania”
  • Swahili: “Arusha”
  • Swedish: “Arusha”
  • Tajik: “Аруша”
  • Tamil: “அருஷா”
  • Tatar: “Arusha”
  • Telugu: “ఆరుషా”
  • Thai: “อารูชา”
  • Tumbuka: “Arusha”
  • Turkish: “Arusha”
  • Ukrainian: “Аруша”
  • Urdu: “اروشا”
  • Uzbek: “Arusha”
  • 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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