Dodoma
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Dodoma

Dodoma, officially Dodoma City, is the capital city of . With a population of 765,179, it is also the administrative capital of both and the entire .
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  • Type: City with 765,000 residents
  • Description: city and capital of Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Dodoma City” and “Idodoma”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dodoma Airport and Gaddafi Mosque.

Aerodrome
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an airport serving the capital of Dodoma located in the . It has a runway that's 2,450 metres long, at an elevation of 1,109 metres.

Mosque
Photo: Mangapwani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a located in Dodoma, the capital of . With capacity for 3,000 worshipers, it is the largest mosque in the country, and the second-largest in after the Uganda National Mosque.

Hospital
, formerly called Mirembe Hospital for the Insane, is the national psychiatric hospital in Dodoma, . In 1927, the British colonial administration built the hospital, which handled mental patients from all over the Tanganyika Territory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Makole.

Suburb
is an administrative ward of the of the in . The and Ipagala wards border the ward to the north and east, respectively.

Dodoma

Latitude
-6.1791° or 6° 10′ 45″ south
Longitude
35.7468° or 35° 44′ 49″ east
Population
765,000
Elevation
1,125 metres (3,691 feet)
IATA airport code
DOD
United Nations Location Code
TZ DOD
Open location code
6G5QRPCW+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 87841198
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
160196
Wiki­data ID
Q3866
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dodoma” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dodoma”
  • Albanian: “Dodoma”
  • Amharic: “ዶዶማ”
  • Arabic: “دودوما”
  • Aragonese: “Dodoma”
  • Armenian: “Դոդոմա”
  • Arpitan: “Dodoma”
  • Asturian: “Dodoma”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dodoma”
  • Balinese: “Dodoma”
  • Basque: “Dodoma”
  • Belarusian: “Дадома”
  • Bengali: “দোদোমা”
  • Bosnian: “Dodoma”
  • Breton: “Dodoma”
  • Bulgarian: “Додома”
  • Catalan: “Dodoma”
  • Cebuano: “Dodoma”
  • Central Kurdish: “دۆدۆما”
  • Chechen: “Додома”
  • Chinese: “Dodoma”
  • Chinese: “多多马”
  • Chinese: “杜篤瑪”
  • Croatian: “Dodoma”
  • Czech: “Dodoma”
  • Dagbani: “Dodoma”
  • Danish: “Dodoma”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dodoma”
  • Dutch: “Dodoma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دودوما”
  • Esperanto: “Dodomao”
  • Esperanto: “Dodomo”
  • Estonian: “Dodoma”
  • Ewe: “Dodoma”
  • Extremaduran: “Dodoma”
  • Fanti: “Dodoma”
  • Farefare: “Dodoma”
  • Faroese: “Dodoma”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dodoma”
  • Finnish: “Dodoma”
  • French: “Dodoma”
  • Ga: “Dodoma”
  • Galician: “Dodoma”
  • Georgian: “დოდომა”
  • German: “Dodoma”
  • Greek: “Ντοντόμα”
  • Gujarati: “ડોડોમા”
  • Haitian: “Dodoma”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dodoma”
  • Hausa: “Dodoma”
  • Hebrew: “דודומה”
  • Hindi: “डोडोमा”
  • Hindi: “दोदोमा”
  • Hungarian: “Dodoma”
  • Icelandic: “Dódóma”
  • Ido: “Dodoma”
  • Igbo: “Dodoma”
  • Inari Sami: “Dodoma”
  • Indonesian: “Dodoma”
  • Interlingua: “Dodoma”
  • Interlingue: “Dodoma”
  • Irish: “Dodoma”
  • Italian: “Dodoma”
  • Japanese: “ドドマ”
  • Javanese: “Dodoma”
  • Kabiyè: “Todoma”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dodoma”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊಡೊಮ”
  • Kannada: “ಡೋಡೋಮಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Додома”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Dodoma”
  • Kirghiz: “Додома”
  • Kongo: “Dodoma”
  • Korean: “도도마”
  • Kotava: “Dodoma”
  • Kurdish: “Dodoma”
  • Kusaal: “Dodoma”
  • Ladin: “Dodoma”
  • Latin: “Dodoma”
  • Latvian: “Dodoma”
  • Ligurian: “Dòdoma”
  • Lingala: “Dodoma”
  • Lithuanian: “Dodoma”
  • Lombard: “Dodoma”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dodoma”
  • Macedonian: “Додома”
  • Malagasy: “Dodoma”
  • Malay: “Dodoma”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൊഡോമ”
  • Maltese: “Dodoma”
  • Maori: “Dodoma”
  • Marathi: “डोडोमा”
  • Mazanderani: “دودوما”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dodoma”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dodoma”
  • Minangkabau: “Dodoma”
  • Mingrelian: “დოდომა”
  • Moksha: “Додома”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ضوضوما”
  • Mossi: “Dodoma”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Dodoma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dodoma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dodoma”
  • Norwegian: “Dodoma”
  • Novial: “Dodoma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dodoma”
  • Ossetian: “Додомæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੋਦੋਮਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Dodoma”
  • Persian: “دودوما”
  • Piemontese: “Dodoma”
  • Polish: “Dodoma”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Dodoma”
  • Portuguese: “Dodoma”
  • Pushto: “دودوما”
  • Quechua: “Dodoma”
  • Romanian: “Dodoma”
  • Russian: “Додома”
  • Samogitian: “Dodoma”
  • Sardinian: “Dodoma”
  • Scots: “Dodoma”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dodoma”
  • Serbian: “Додома”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dodoma”
  • Shona: “Dodoma”
  • Silesian: “Dodoma”
  • Sindhi: “ڊوڊوما”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෝඩෝමා”
  • Slovak: “Dodoma”
  • Slovenian: “Dodoma”
  • Somali: “Dodoma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دودوما”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Dodoma”
  • Spanish: “Dodoma”
  • Swahili: “Dodoma”
  • Swati: “Dodoma”
  • Swedish: “Dodoma”
  • Tagalog: “Dodoma”
  • Tajik: “Додома”
  • Talysh: “Dodoma”
  • Tamil: “டொடோமா”
  • Tamil: “டோடோமா”
  • Telugu: “డోడోమా”
  • Thai: “โดโดมา”
  • Tumbuka: “Dodoma”
  • Turkish: “Dodoma”
  • Twi: “Dodoma”
  • Tyap: “Dodoma”
  • Udmurt: “Додома”
  • Ukrainian: “Додома”
  • Urdu: “دودوما”
  • Urdu: “ڈوڈوما”
  • Uzbek: “Dodoma”
  • Venetian: “Dodoma”
  • Veps: “Dodom”
  • Vietnamese: “Dodoma”
  • Volapük: “Dodoma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dodoma”
  • Welsh: “Dodoma”
  • Western Frisian: “Dodoma”
  • Western Mari: “Додома”
  • Western Panjabi: “دودوما”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈوڈوما”
  • Wolof: “Dodoma”
  • Wu Chinese: “多多馬”
  • Yiddish: “דאדאמא”
  • Yoruba: “Dodoma”
  • Yue Chinese: “杜篤瑪”
  • Zulu: “Dodoma”
  • Zulu: “i-Dodoma”
  • “Dodoma”

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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 Wikipedia page “Dodoma”. Photo: Massimiliano, CC BY 2.0.