Moshi
Moshi Pronunciationis a municipality and the capital of Kilimanjaro Region in the Northeastern Tanzania. As of 2017, the municipality has an estimated population of 201,150 and a population density of 3,409 persons per km) and is the smallest municipality in Tanzania by area.
- Type: City with 222,000 residents
- Description: city in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Moschi”, “Moshi Mjini”, “Moshi, Tanzania”, “Moşi”, and “Moŝo”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Moshi Airport and Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rau and Karanga.
Moshi
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kiusa, Moshi Urban District, Kilimanjaro, Northeast Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-3.3486° or 3° 20′ 55″ south
Longitude
37.3435° or 37° 20′ 37″ east
Population
222,000
Elevation
854 metres (2,802 feet)
IATA airport code
QSI
UN/LOCODE
TZ MSH
Open location code
6G8VM82V+GC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Moshi” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሞሺ”
- Arabic: “موشي”
- Asturian: “Moshi”
- Azerbaijani: “Moshi”
- Basque: “Moshi”
- Belarusian: “Мошы”
- Bengali: “মসি”
- Bengali: “মোশি”
- Bulgarian: “Моши”
- Chinese: “莫希”
- Croatian: “Moshi”
- Danish: “Moshi”
- Dutch: “Moshi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موشى”
- Esperanto: “Moshi”
- Esperanto: “Moŝio”
- Estonian: “Moshi”
- Finnish: “Moshi”
- French: “Moshi”
- German: “Moshi”
- Greek: “Μόσι (Τανζανία)”
- Greek: “Μόσι”
- Gujarati: “મોશી”
- Hausa: “Moshi”
- Hebrew: “מושי”
- Hindi: “मोशी”
- Hungarian: “Moshi”
- Indonesian: “Moshi”
- Irish: “Moshi”
- Italian: “Moshi”
- Japanese: “モシ”
- Javanese: “Moshi”
- Kalaallisut: “Moshi”
- Kannada: “ಮೋಶಿ”
- Kazakh: “Moshi”
- Kirghiz: “Moshi”
- Korean: “모시”
- Kotava: “Moshi”
- Latvian: “Moši”
- Lithuanian: “Mošis”
- Malay: “Moshi”
- Maori: “Moshi”
- Marathi: “मोशी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moshi”
- Norwegian: “Moshi”
- Oromo: “Moshi”
- Panjabi: “موشی”
- Persian: “موشی”
- Polish: “Moshi”
- Portuguese: “Moshi”
- Pushto: “موشی”
- Romanian: “Moshi”
- Russian: “Моши”
- Serbian: “Moši”
- Serbian: “Моши”
- Sinhala: “මොෂි”
- Slovenian: “Moshi”
- Somali: “Moshi”
- South Azerbaijani: “موشی (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “موشی”
- Spanish: “Moshi”
- Swahili: “Moshi”
- Swedish: “Moshi”
- Tajik: “Moshi”
- Tamil: “மோஷி”
- Tatar: “Moshi”
- Tatar: “Моши”
- Telugu: “మోషి”
- Thai: “โมชี”
- Turkish: “Moshi”
- Ukrainian: “Моші”
- Urdu: “موشی، تنزانیہ”
- Uzbek: “Moshi”
- Venetian: “Moshi”
- Vietnamese: “Moshi”
- Yoruba: “Moshi”
- Yue Chinese: “莫西”
- Zulu: “Moshi, Thanzaniya”
- “Moshi”
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Places to explore: Mawenzi and Hindu Street.
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