Mwanza
Nyamagana District
Nyamagana

Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in on the southern edge of Lake Victoria. Your main reason for coming here would likely be en route to or .
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  • Type: City with 1,100,000 residents
  • Description: Lakeside City
  • Also known as: “Muanza”, “Mwamza”, “Mwansa”, and “Mwanza City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mwanza International School and Saanane Island National Park.

School
is a primary and secondary school teaching the British National Curriculum to local and expatriate children in Mwanza, .

Island
is a national park of Tanzania and freshwater island, with the IUCN category II located within of the of . It is named after the local farmer and fisherman Mzee Saanane Chavandi.

Mwanza

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
United Nations Location Code
TZ MWZ
Open location code
6G9JFWJ2+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255590322
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
152224
Wiki­data ID
Q110218
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Mwanza” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موانزا”
  • Armenian: “Մվանզա”
  • Asturian: “Mwanza”
  • Basque: “Mwanza”
  • Belarusian: “Мванза”
  • Bengali: “মোয়ানযা”
  • Breton: “Mwanza”
  • Bulgarian: “Муанза”
  • Catalan: “Mwanza”
  • Cebuano: “Mwanza”
  • Chinese: “姆万扎”
  • Chinese: “姆宛札”
  • Chinese: “姆萬紮”
  • Croatian: “Mwanza”
  • Czech: “Mwanza”
  • Danish: “Mwanza”
  • Dutch: “Mwanza (stad in Tanzania)”
  • Dutch: “Mwanza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موانزا”
  • Esperanto: “Mŭanzo”
  • Esperanto: “Muvanzo”
  • Esperanto: “Mwanza”
  • Estonian: “Mwanza”
  • Finnish: “Mwanza”
  • French: “Mwanza”
  • Ganda: “Mwanza”
  • Georgian: “მვანზა”
  • German: “Muansa”
  • German: “Mwanza”
  • Greek: “Μουάνζα”
  • Gujarati: “મ્વાન્ઝા”
  • Hausa: “Mwanza”
  • Hebrew: “מוואנזה”
  • Hindi: “म्युवान्ज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Mwanza”
  • Indonesian: “Mwanza”
  • Interlingua: “Mwanza”
  • Irish: “Mwanza”
  • Italian: “Mwanza”
  • Japanese: “ムワンザ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mwanza”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ವಾಂಝಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Мванза”
  • Korean: “므완자”
  • Korean: “음완자”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “موانزا”
  • Polish: “Mwanza”
  • Portuguese: “Mwanza”
  • Romanian: “Mwanza”
  • Russian: “Мванза”
  • Scots: “Mwanza”
  • Serbian: “Mvanza”
  • Serbian: “Мванза”
  • Sinhala: “ම්වන්සා”
  • Slovenian: “Mwanza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موانزا”
  • Spanish: “Mwanza”
  • Swahili: “Jiji la Mwanza”
  • Swahili: “Mwanza mjini”
  • Swahili: “Mwanza”
  • Swedish: “Mwanza”
  • Swedish: “Nyamagana”
  • Tamil: “மவன்ஜா”
  • Telugu: “మ్యువాంజా”
  • Thai: “มวันซา”
  • Thai: “อึมวันซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Mwanza”
  • Turkish: “Mwanza”
  • Ukrainian: “Мванза”
  • Urdu: “موانزا”
  • Uzbek: “Mvanza”
  • 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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