Bagamoyo
Bagamoyo is a historic coastal town and capital of Bagamoyo District in the Pwani Region of Tanzania. Much of the settlement was founded at the end of the 18th century, though it is an extension of a much older Swahili settlement, Kaole.Photo: Norocron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bagamoyo
- Type: Town with 55,000 residents
- Description: town in Tanzania
- Category: locality
- Location: Dunda, Bagamoyo District Council, Coast, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-6.4422° or 6° 26′ 32″ southLongitude
38.9062° or 38° 54′ 22″ eastPopulation
55,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
6G5WHW54+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 258155223OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
161290Wikidata ID
Q799843
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bagamoyo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باجامويو”
- Asturian: “Bagamoyo”
- Belarusian: “Багамоя”
- Bulgarian: “Багамойо”
- Catalan: “Bagamoyo”
- Cebuano: “Bagamoyo”
- Chinese: “巴加莫約”
- Danish: “Bagamoyo”
- Dutch: “Bagamoyo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باجامويو”
- Esperanto: “Bagamoyo”
- Finnish: “Bagamoyo”
- French: “Bagamoyo”
- French: “Bagomojo”
- Galician: “Bagamoyo”
- German: “Bagamayo”
- German: “Bagamojo”
- German: “Bagamoyo”
- German: “Bagomoyo”
- Greek: “Μπαγκαμόγιο”
- Hebrew: “בגמויו”
- Hungarian: “Bagamoyo”
- Italian: “Bagamoyo”
- Japanese: “バガモヨ”
- Korean: “바가모요”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagamoyo”
- Norwegian: “Bagamoyo”
- Persian: “باگامویو”
- Polish: “Bagamoyo”
- Portuguese: “Bagamoyo”
- Romanian: “Bagamoyo, Pwani”
- Romanian: “Bagamoyo”
- Russian: “Багамойо”
- South Azerbaijani: “باقامویو”
- Spanish: “Bagamoyo”
- Swahili: “Bagamoyo (mji)”
- Swahili: “Bagamoyo”
- Swedish: “Bagamoyo”
- Turkish: “Bagamoyo”
- Ukrainian: “Багамойо”
- Urdu: “باگامویو”
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