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Moshi

Moshi is a municipality and the capital of Kilimanjaro Region in the Northeastern . As of 2017, the municipality has an estimated population of 201,150 and a population density of 3,409 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 222,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Moschi” and “Moshi, Tanzania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moshi Airport and Saint Mary Goreti Secondary School.

Aerodrome
Photo: string bass dave, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an airport in the of north-eastern , serving the municipality of Moshi. The airport is 13.8 nautical miles east-northeast of the Kilimanjaro VOR/DME.

School
is a Catholic secondary school, located near Moshi town, in the of . Female gender form about 97% of the students while the remaining are male population.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rau and Karanga.

Village
is an administrative ward in Moshi District of in . The ward covers an area of 3.8 km2, and has an average elevation of 897 m. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 9,137.

Village
is a ward of Moshi Urban, in the of . Its name is derived from the that passes through the ward. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 7,641 people in the ward, from 7,124 in 2012.

Moshi

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
United Nations Location Code
TZ MSH
Open location code
6G8VM82V+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255602805
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
153209
Wiki­data ID
Q271733
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Moshi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موشي”
  • Asturian: “Moshi”
  • Belarusian: “Мошы”
  • Bengali: “মসি”
  • Bulgarian: “Моши”
  • Chinese: “莫希”
  • Chinese: “莫西”
  • Croatian: “Moshi”
  • Danish: “Moshi”
  • Dutch: “Moshi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موشى”
  • Esperanto: “Moshi”
  • Esperanto: “Moŝio”
  • Esperanto: “Moŝo”
  • Estonian: “Moshi”
  • Finnish: “Moshi”
  • French: “Moshi”
  • German: “Moshi”
  • Greek: “Μόσι (Τανζανία)”
  • Greek: “Μόσι”
  • Gujarati: “મોશી”
  • Hebrew: “מושי”
  • Hindi: “मोशी”
  • Hungarian: “Moshi”
  • Indonesian: “Moshi”
  • Irish: “Moshi”
  • Italian: “Moshi”
  • Japanese: “モシ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Moshi”
  • Kannada: “ಮೋಶಿ”
  • Korean: “모시”
  • Kotava: “Moshi”
  • Latvian: “Moši”
  • Lithuanian: “Mošis”
  • Malay: “Moshi”
  • Maori: “Moshi”
  • Marathi: “मोशी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moshi”
  • Norwegian: “Moshi”
  • Persian: “موشی”
  • Polish: “Moshi”
  • Portuguese: “Moshi”
  • Romanian: “Moshi”
  • Russian: “Моши”
  • Serbian: “Moši”
  • Serbian: “Моши”
  • Sinhala: “මොෂි”
  • Slovenian: “Moshi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موشی (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موشی”
  • Spanish: “Moshi”
  • Swahili: “Moshi Mjini”
  • Swahili: “Moshi”
  • Swedish: “Moshi”
  • Tamil: “மோஷி”
  • Tatar: “Моши”
  • Telugu: “మోషి”
  • Thai: “โมชี”
  • Turkish: “Moshi”
  • Turkish: “Moşi”
  • Ukrainian: “Моші”
  • Urdu: “موشی، تنزانیہ”
  • Venetian: “Moshi”
  • Vietnamese: “Moshi”
  • Yoruba: “Moshi”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫西”
  • Zulu: “Moshi, Thanzaniya”

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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 “Moshi”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.