Mtwara
Mtwara Pronunciation is the capital city of Mtwara Region in southeastern Tanzania. In the 1940s, it was planned and constructed as the export facility for the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme, but was somewhat neglected when the scheme was abandoned in 1951.
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Latitude
-10.2838° or 10° 17′ 2″ south
Longitude
40.1789° or 40° 10′ 44″ east
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Mtwara” goes by many names.
ምትዋራAmharic
متواراArabic
MtwaraAsturian
MtvaraAzerbaijani
ম্টওয়ারাBengali
МтвараBulgarian
MtwaraCatalan
MtwaraCebuano
姆特瓦拉Chinese
MtwaraCroatian
MtwaraDanish
MtwaraDutch
متواراEgyptian Arabic
MtŭaroEsperanto
MtwaraEsperanto
MtwaraFinnish
MtwaraHungarian
MtwaraIndonesian
MtwaraItalian
ムトワラJapanese
MtwaraJavanese
ಮೌಂಟ್ರಾKannada
МтвараKazakh
МтвараKirghiz
므트와라Korean
엠톼라Korean
음트와라Korean
MtwaraKotava
MtvaraLatvian
MtvaraLithuanian
MtwaraMalay
मत्वराMarathi
MtwaraNorwegian
MtwaraNorwegian Bokmål
MtwaraOromo
متواراPanjabi
امتواراPersian
MtwaraPolish
متواراPushto
MtwaraRomanian
МтвараRussian
ට්වරාSinhala
MtwaraSlovenian
MtwaraSomali
امتواراSouth Azerbaijani
MtwaraTurkish
МтвараUkrainian
متواراUrdu
MtwaraUzbek
MtwaraVietnamese
MtwaraYoruba
姆特華拉Yue Chinese
MtwaraZulu
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