Mwanza
Mwanza is a city in Northwest Tanzania on the southern edge of Lake Victoria. Your main reason for coming here would likely be en route to Rwanda or Uganda.
- Type: City with 1,100,000 residents
- Description: Lakeside City
- Also known as: “Jiji la Mwanza”, “Muansa”, “Muanza”, “Mwamza”, “Mwansa”, “Mwanza (stad in Tanzania)”, “Mwanza City”, “Mwanza mjini”, “Nyamagana”, and “음완자”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mwanza International School and Saanane Island National Park.
Mwanza
- Categories: port city, big city, and locality
- Location: Nyamagana, Nyamagana District, Mwanza, Northwest Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.5197° or 2° 31′ 11″ south
Longitude
32.9014° or 32° 54′ 5″ east
Population
1,100,000
Elevation
1,144 metres (3,753 feet)
IATA airport code
MWZ
UN/LOCODE
TZ MWZ
Open location code
6G9JFWJ2+4H
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—“Mwanza” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ምዋንዛ”
- Arabic: “موانزا”
- Armenian: “Մվանզա”
- Asturian: “Mwanza”
- Azerbaijani: “Mwanza”
- Basque: “Mwanza”
- Belarusian: “Мванза”
- Bengali: “মোয়ানজা”
- Bengali: “মোয়ানযা”
- Breton: “Mwanza”
- Bulgarian: “Муанза”
- Catalan: “Mwanza”
- Cebuano: “Mwanza”
- Chinese: “姆万扎”
- Chinese: “姆萬紮”
- Croatian: “Mwanza”
- Czech: “Mwanza”
- Danish: “Mwanza”
- Dutch: “Mwanza”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موانزا”
- Esperanto: “Mŭanzo”
- Esperanto: “Muvanzo”
- Esperanto: “Mwanza”
- Estonian: “Mwanza”
- Finnish: “Mwanza”
- French: “Mwanza”
- Ganda: “Mwanza”
- Georgian: “მვანზა”
- German: “Mwanza”
- Greek: “Μουάνζα”
- Gujarati: “મ્વાન્ઝા”
- Hausa: “Mwanza”
- Hebrew: “מוואנזה”
- Hindi: “म्युवान्ज़ा”
- Hindi: “म्वांजा”
- Hungarian: “Mwanza”
- Indonesian: “Mwanza”
- Interlingua: “Mwanza”
- Irish: “Mwanza”
- Italian: “Mwanza”
- Japanese: “ムワンザ”
- Javanese: “Mwanza”
- Kalaallisut: “Mwanza”
- Kannada: “ಮ್ವಾಂಝಾ”
- Kazakh: “Mwanza”
- Kirghiz: “Мванза”
- Korean: “므완자”
- Kotava: “Mwanza”
- Latvian: “Mvanza”
- Lithuanian: “Mvanza”
- Low German: “Mwanza”
- Malay: “Mwanza”
- Maori: “Mwanza”
- Marathi: “मवांझा”
- Moksha: “Мванза”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mwanza”
- Norwegian: “Mwanza”
- Nyanja: “Mwanza”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mwanza”
- Oromo: “Mwanza”
- Panjabi: “موانزا”
- Persian: “موانزا”
- Polish: “Mwanza”
- Portuguese: “Mwanza”
- Pushto: “موانزا”
- Romanian: “Mwanza”
- Russian: “Мванза”
- Scots: “Mwanza”
- Serbian: “Mvanza”
- Serbian: “Мванза”
- Sinhala: “ම්වන්සා”
- Slovenian: “Mwanza”
- Somali: “Mwanza”
- South Azerbaijani: “موانزا”
- Spanish: “Mwanza”
- Swahili: “Mwanza”
- Swedish: “Mwanza”
- Tajik: “Mwanza”
- Tamil: “மவன்ஜா”
- Tatar: “Mwanza”
- Telugu: “మ్యువాంజా”
- Thai: “มวันซา”
- Thai: “อึมวันซา”
- Tumbuka: “Mwanza”
- Turkish: “Mwanza”
- Ukrainian: “Мванза”
- Urdu: “موانزا”
- Uzbek: “Mvanza”
- Uzbek: “Mwanza”
- Venetian: “Mwanza”
- Vietnamese: “Mwanza”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mwanza”
- Western Frisian: “Mwanza”
- Wu Chinese: “姆万扎”
- Yoruba: “Mwanza”
- Yue Chinese: “姆宛札”
- Zulu: “Mwanza”
- “Mwanza”
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