Mtwara
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Mtwara

Mtwara is the capital city of in southeastern . 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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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Mikindani”

Mtwara

Latitude
-10.2838° or 10° 17′ 2″ south
Longitude
40.1789° or 40° 10′ 44″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
MYW
United Nations Location Codes
TZ MIK and TZ MYW
Open location code
5HX2P58H+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258162316
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
877747
Wiki­data ID
Q646684
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Mtwara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متوارا”
  • Asturian: “Mtwara”
  • Bengali: “মেটওয়ারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мтвара”
  • Catalan: “Mtwara”
  • Cebuano: “Mtwara”
  • Chinese: “姆特瓦拉”
  • Chinese: “姆特華拉”
  • Croatian: “Mtwara”
  • Danish: “Mtwara”
  • Dutch: “Mtwara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متوارا”
  • Esperanto: “Mtŭaro”
  • Esperanto: “Mtwara”
  • Finnish: “Mtwara”
  • French: “Mtwara”
  • German: “Mtwara”
  • Greek: “Μτβάρα”
  • Gujarati: “મત્વરા”
  • Hebrew: “מטווארה”
  • Hindi: “त्वारा”
  • Hungarian: “Mtwara”
  • Indonesian: “Mtwara”
  • Italian: “Mtwara”
  • Japanese: “ムトワラ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೌಂಟ್ರಾ”
  • Korean: “므트와라”
  • Korean: “엠톼라”
  • Korean: “음트와라”
  • Kotava: “Mtwara”
  • Latvian: “Mtvara”
  • Lithuanian: “Mtvara”
  • Malay: “Mtwara”
  • Marathi: “मत्वरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mtwara”
  • Norwegian: “Mtwara”
  • Persian: “امتوارا”
  • Polish: “Mtwara”
  • Portuguese: “Mtwara”
  • Romanian: “Mtwara”
  • Russian: “Мтвара”
  • Sinhala: “ට්වරා”
  • Slovenian: “Mtwara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امتوارا”
  • Spanish: “Mtwara”
  • Swahili: “Mtwara”
  • Swedish: “Mtwara”
  • Tamil: “மட்வாரா”
  • Telugu: “త్వారా”
  • Thai: “มทวารา”
  • Turkish: “Mtwara”
  • Ukrainian: “Мтвара”
  • Urdu: “متوارا”
  • Vietnamese: “Mtwara”
  • Yoruba: “Mtwara”
  • Yue Chinese: “姆特華拉”
  • Zulu: “Mtwara”

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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 “Mtwara”. Photo: VonTasha, CC BY 3.0.