Dar es Salaam Region
Ilala Municipal Council
Gerezani

Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam was founded in 1862 by Sultan Seyyid Majid of on the site of the village of Mzizima. Mzizima's history dates back to when the Barawa people started to settle and cultivate the area around Mbwa Maji, Magogoni, Mjimwema, Gezaulole, and Kibonde Maji Mbagara.
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  • Type: City with 5,380,000 residents
  • Description: largest city in Tanzania and capital of Dar es Salaam Region
  • Also known as: “Dār es Salām” and “Dar es-Salaam”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Tanzania and St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Dar es Salaam.

Museum
Photo: Moongateclimber, Public domain.
The , is a consortium of several museums whose purpose is to preserve and show objects from the history and natural environment of Tanzania.

Church
Photo: alexander johmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Saint Joseph's Metropolitan Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Dar es Salaam, . It is a Gothic church located in Sokoine Drive, facing the harbour, close to the .

Hospital
Photo: Alifazal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Established in 1964, the , Dar es Salaam is a 170-bed multispecialty hospital. The provides general medical services, specialist clinics and diagnostic services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mwananyamala.

Locality
is an administrative ward in Kinondoni District of the in . The ward is bordered to the north by ward and to the east by and Kinondoni.

Dar es Salaam

Latitude
-6.8161° or 6° 48′ 58″ south
Longitude
39.2804° or 39° 16′ 49″ east
Population
5,380,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
DAR
United Nations Location Code
TZ DAR
Open location code
6G5X57MJ+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565027
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
160263
Wiki­data ID
Q1960
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dar es Salaam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Albanian: “Dar es Salam”
  • Amharic: “ዳር ኤስ ሳላም”
  • Arabic: “دار السلام”
  • Aragonese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Armenian: “Դար-էս-Սալամ”
  • Arpitan: “Dar es Salam”
  • Asturian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Asturian: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dar əs Salam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dar-əs-Salam”
  • Balinese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Bashkir: “Дар-әс-Сәләм”
  • Basque: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Belarusian: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Bengali: “দারুস সালাম”
  • Bosnian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Breton: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Bulgarian: “Дар ес Салаам”
  • Bulgarian: “Дар ес-Салаам”
  • Burmese: “ဒါအက်စ် ဆယ်လန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Cebuano: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Central Bikol: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Chechen: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Chinese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Chinese: “三兰港”
  • Chinese: “三蘭港”
  • Chinese: “达累斯萨拉姆”
  • Chinese: “達累斯薩拉姆”
  • Cornish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Croatian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Croatian: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Czech: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Danish: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Dutch: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دار السلام”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دارالسلام”
  • Esperanto: “Dar es salaam”
  • Esperanto: “Daresalamo”
  • Estonian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Faroese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Finnish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • French: “Dar es Salaam”
  • French: “Dar es Salam”
  • French: “Dar Es Salam”
  • Galician: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Georgian: “დარ-ეს-სალამი”
  • German: “Dar as-Salam”
  • German: “Dar es Salaam”
  • German: “Dar Es Salaam”
  • German: “Daressalam”
  • German: “Mzizima”
  • Greek: “Νταρ ες Σαλάμ”
  • Greek: “Ντοντόμα”
  • Gujarati: “દાર ઍસ સલામ”
  • Hausa: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Hebrew: “דאר א-סלאם”
  • Hindi: “दार अस सलाम”
  • Hindi: “दार एस सलाम”
  • Hungarian: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Icelandic: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Ido: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Indonesian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Indonesian: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Interlingua: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Interlingue: “Daressalaam”
  • Irish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Irish: “Dárasalám”
  • Italian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Japanese: “ダルエスサラーム”
  • Javanese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Kabiyè: “Taɖɛsalam”
  • Kabiyè: “Tarɛsalam”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Kannada: “ದಾರ್ ಅಸ್ ಸಲಾಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ದಾರ್ ಎಸ್ ಸಲಾಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Даруссалам”
  • Kirghiz: “Дар-эс-Салам шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Korean: “다르 에스 살람”
  • Korean: “다르에스살람”
  • Korean: “음지지마”
  • Kotava: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Kurdish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Latin: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Latvian: “Dāresalāma”
  • Ligurian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Lithuanian: “Dar es Salamas”
  • Lombard: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Low German: “Daressalam”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Macedonian: “Дар ес Салам”
  • Malagasy: “Dar es Salam”
  • Malay: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Malayalam: “ദാർ എസ് സലാം”
  • Maori: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Marathi: “दार एस सलाम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Mongolian: “Дар эс Салам”
  • Navajo: “Hózhǫ́ǫ́jí Kin Haalʼá”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Northern Frisian: “Daressalaam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Daressalaam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Norwegian: “Dar-es-Salaam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dar es Salaam”
  • Ossetian: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਰ ਅਸ ਸਲਾਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Dar Es Salaam”
  • Persian: “دارالسلام”
  • Piemontese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Polish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Polish: “Dar es Salam”
  • Polish: “Mzizima”
  • Portuguese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Pushto: “دارالسلام”
  • Quechua: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Romanian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Russian: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Samogitian: “Dar es Salams”
  • Scots: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Serbian: “Дар ес Салам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Shona: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Sicilian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Silesian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Sindhi: “دارالسلام”
  • Sinhala: “ඩර් එස් සලාම්”
  • Sinhala: “දරස් සලාම්”
  • Slovak: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Slovak: “Dar es Salám”
  • Slovenian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Somali: “Dar es Salaam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دارالسلام (تانزانیا)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دارالسلام”
  • Spanish: “Dar as Salam”
  • Spanish: “Dar as-Salam”
  • Spanish: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Spanish: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Spanish: “Dar es-Salam”
  • Swahili: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Swedish: “Dar es-Salaam”
  • Swiss German: “Daressalaam”
  • Tagalog: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Tajik: “Дар Ассалом”
  • Tamil: “தாருசலாம்”
  • Tamil: “தாருஸ்ஸலாம்”
  • Tamil: “தார் எஸ் ஸலாம்”
  • Telugu: “దార్ ఎస్ సలామ్”
  • Thai: “ดาร์-เอส-ซาลาม”
  • Tibetan: “ཏ་རེ་སི་ས་ལམ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Daressalaam”
  • Tumbuka: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Turkish: “Darüsselam”
  • Turkmen: “Dar es Salam”
  • Uighur: “دارېسسالام”
  • Ukrainian: “Дар-ес-Салам”
  • Urdu: “دارالسلام”
  • Uzbek: “Dar es Salam”
  • Uzbek: “Dorussalom”
  • Venetian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Veps: “Dar Es Salam”
  • Vietnamese: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dar es Salaam”
  • Welsh: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Western Frisian: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Western Mari: “Дар-эс-Салам”
  • Western Panjabi: “دارالسلام”
  • Wu Chinese: “达累斯萨拉姆”
  • Yiddish: “דאר עס סאלאאם”
  • Yoruba: “Dar es Salaam”
  • Yue Chinese: “三蘭港”
  • Zulu: “Dar es Salaam”
  • “Dar es Salams”
  • “ma tomo Ta E Salan”
  • “ma tomo Talesalan”

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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 “Dar es Salaam”. Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.