Kigoma
Kigoma Ujiji Municipal
Kigoma

Kigoma

Kigoma is a city in . Beautifully situated on the shores of . Capital of the Western Region. Main railway terminus on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
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Kigoma

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
United Nations Location Code
TZ TKQ
Open location code
6G7F4JCH+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12409731581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
157738
Wiki­data ID
Q244509
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kigoma” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيغوما”
  • Asturian: “Kigoma”
  • Belarusian: “Кігома”
  • Bengali: “কিগুমা”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “קיגומה”
  • Hindi: “किगोमा”
  • Hungarian: “Kigoma”
  • Indonesian: “Kigoma”
  • Irish: “Kigoma”
  • Italian: “Kigoma”
  • Japanese: “キゴマ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kigoma”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಗೋಮ”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “کیگوما”
  • Polish: “Kigoma-Ujiji”
  • Polish: “Kigoma”
  • Portuguese: “Kigoma”
  • Portuguese: “Quigoma”
  • Romanian: “Kigoma”
  • Russian: “Кигома”
  • Russian: “Кигоме”
  • Serbian: “Кигома”
  • Sinhala: “කිගෝමා”
  • Slovenian: “Kigoma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیقوما”
  • Spanish: “Kigoma”
  • Swahili: “Kigoma-Ujiji”
  • Swahili: “Kigoma”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Kigoma Mjini”
  • Swedish: “Kigoma”
  • Swedish: “Ujiji”
  • Tamil: “கிகோமா”
  • Telugu: “కిగోమా”
  • Thai: “คิโกมา”
  • Turkish: “Kigoma”
  • Ukrainian: “Кігома”
  • Urdu: “کیگوما”
  • Venetian: “Kigoma”
  • Vietnamese: “Kigoma”
  • Wu Chinese: “基戈馬”
  • Yoruba: “Kigoma”
  • Yue Chinese: “基戈馬”
  • Zulu: “Kigoma”

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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 “Kigoma”. Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.