Kondoa
Kondoa is a city the Dodoma region of Central Tanzania, and is best known as the gateway to the Kondoa Rock Art Sites, a group of prehistoric rock shelters containing paintings that form one of East Africa's most important archaeological and cultural landscapes.
- Type: Town with 80,400 residents
- Description: town in Dodoma Region, Tanzania
- Also known as: “Kondoa Mjini”, “Kondoa TC”, “Sites d’art rupestre de kondoa”, “Sites d’art rupestre de Kondoa”, and “كوندوا مجيني”
Kondoa
- Categories: archaeological site, ward of Tanzania, and locality
- Location: Kondoa District Council, Dodoma, Central Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.9065° or 4° 54′ 23″ south
Longitude
35.7796° or 35° 46′ 47″ east
Population
80,400
Elevation
1,404 metres (4,606 feet)
Open location code
6G7Q3QVH+9V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kondoa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوندوا”
- Catalan: “Kondoa”
- Chinese: “孔多阿”
- Dutch: “Kondoa”
- Finnish: “Kondoa”
- French: “Kondoa”
- German: “Kondoa”
- Greek: “Κοντόα”
- Hebrew: “קונדואה”
- Italian: “Kondoa”
- Kotava: “Kondoa (aruleem)”
- Kotava: “Kondoa”
- Romanian: “Kondoa, Dodoma”
- Swahili: “Kondoa (mji)”
- Swahili: “Kondoa”
- Swedish: “Kondoa (distrikt)”
- Ukrainian: “Кондоа”
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