Kigoma
Kigoma is a city in Tanzania. Beautifully situated on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Capital of the Western Region. Main railway terminus on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
- Type: City with 232,000 residents
- Description: city in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Ujiji” and “Wilaya ya Kigoma Mjini”
Kigoma
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kigoma, Kigoma Ujiji Municipal, Kigoma, Northwest Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.8779° or 4° 52′ 40″ south
Longitude
29.6296° or 29° 37′ 47″ east
Population
232,000
Elevation
769 metres (2,523 feet)
IATA airport code
TKQ
UN/LOCODE
TZ TKQ
Open location code
6G7F4JCH+VV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Kigoma” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኪጎማ”
- Arabic: “كيغوما”
- Asturian: “Kigoma”
- Azerbaijani: “Kigoma”
- Basque: “Kigoma”
- Belarusian: “Кігома”
- Bengali: “কিগুমা”
- Bengali: “কিগোমা”
- Bulgarian: “Кигома”
- Cebuano: “Kigoma”
- Chinese: “基戈馬”
- Chinese: “基戈马”
- Croatian: “Kigoma”
- Czech: “Kigoma”
- Danish: “Kigoma”
- Dutch: “Kigoma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيجوما”
- Esperanto: “Kigoma”
- Esperanto: “Kigomo”
- Estonian: “Kigoma”
- Finnish: “Kigoma”
- French: “Kigoma”
- German: “Kigoma”
- Greek: “Αστική Περιοχή Κιγκόμα”
- Gujarati: “કિગોમા”
- Hausa: “Kigoma”
- Hebrew: “קיגומה”
- Hindi: “किगोमा”
- Hungarian: “Kigoma”
- Indonesian: “Kigoma”
- Irish: “Kigoma”
- Italian: “Kigoma”
- Japanese: “キゴマ”
- Javanese: “Kigoma”
- Kalaallisut: “Kigoma”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಗೋಮ”
- Kazakh: “Кигома”
- Kirghiz: “Кигома”
- Kongo: “Kigoma”
- Korean: “키고마”
- Kotava: “Kigoma”
- Latvian: “Kigoma”
- Lingala: “Kigoma”
- Lithuanian: “Kigoma”
- Malay: “Kigoma”
- Maori: “Kigoma”
- Marathi: “किगोमा”
- Moksha: “Кигома”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kigoma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kigoma”
- Norwegian: “Kigoma”
- Oromo: “Kigoma”
- Panjabi: “کیگوما”
- Persian: “کیگوما”
- Polish: “Kigoma”
- Portuguese: “Kigoma”
- Portuguese: “Quigoma”
- Pushto: “کیگوما”
- Romanian: “Kigoma”
- Russian: “Кигома”
- Russian: “Кигоме”
- Serbian: “Кигома”
- Sinhala: “කිගෝමා”
- Slovenian: “Kigoma”
- Somali: “Kigoma”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیقوما”
- Spanish: “Kigoma”
- Swahili: “Kigoma-Ujiji”
- Swahili: “Kigoma”
- Swedish: “Kigoma”
- Tajik: “Кигома”
- Tamil: “கிகோமா”
- Tatar: “Kigoma”
- Telugu: “కిగోమా”
- Thai: “คิโกมา”
- Turkish: “Kigoma”
- Ukrainian: “Кігома”
- Urdu: “کیگوما”
- Uzbek: “Kigoma”
- Venetian: “Kigoma”
- Vietnamese: “Kigoma”
- Wu Chinese: “基戈馬”
- Yoruba: “Kigoma”
- Yue Chinese: “基戈馬”
- Zulu: “Kigoma”
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