Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a park and UNESCO World Heritage site in Northeast Tanzania. It contains an old volcano that has collapsed and formed a crater. The steep sides of the crater have become a natural enclosure for a wide variety of wildlife.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: World Heritage Site
- Categories: protected area and recreation area
- Location: Arusha, Northeast Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-3.0647° or 3° 3′ 53″ southLongitude
35.4213° or 35° 25′ 17″ eastElevation
1,730 metres (5,676 feet)Inception
1959Operator
Tanzania National ParksOpen location code
6G8QWCPC+4GOpenStreetMap ID
way 43196616OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ngorongoro Conservation Area” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة نجورونجورو المحمية”
- Arabic: “منطقة نغورونغورو المحمية”
- Armenian: “Նգորոնգորո (խառնարան)”
- Armenian: “Նգորոնգորո”
- Asturian: “Zona de caltenimientu de Ngorongoro”
- Azerbaijani: “Nqoronqoro”
- Basque: “Ngorongoro Kontserbazio Eremua”
- Belarusian: “Нгорангора”
- Bulgarian: “Кратерът Нгоронгоро”
- Bulgarian: “Нгоронгоро”
- Burmese: “ငိုရွန်ငိုယို သဘာဝ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး ဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Cràter de l’Ngorongoro”
- Catalan: “Cràter de Ngorongoro”
- Catalan: “Cràter Ngorongoro”
- Catalan: “Zona de conservació de l’Ngorongoro”
- Catalan: “Zona de conservació de Ngorongoro”
- Cebuano: “Ngorongoro”
- Chinese: “恩戈罗恩戈罗保护区”
- Chinese: “恩戈罗恩戈罗自然保护区”
- Chinese: “恩戈羅恩戈羅保護區”
- Croatian: “Ngorongoro”
- Czech: “Chráněné území Ngorongoro”
- Czech: “Ngorongoro”
- Danish: “Ngorongoro naturreservatet”
- Danish: “Ngorongoro”
- Dutch: “Beschermd gebied van Ngorongoro”
- Dutch: “Ngorongoro-krater”
- Dutch: “Ngorongoro”
- Dutch: “Ngorongorokrater”
- Esperanto: “Nacia Parko Ngorongoro”
- Esperanto: “Naturprotektejo de Ngorongoro”
- Esperanto: “Ngorongoro”
- Estonian: “Ngorongoro kraater”
- Estonian: “Ngorongoro vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Ngorongoro”
- Finnish: “Ngorongoro”
- Finnish: “Ngorongoron kraatteri”
- Finnish: “Ngorongoron luonnonsuojelualue”
- Finnish: “Ngorongoron suojelualue”
- French: “aire de conservation du Ngorongoro”
- French: “Aire de conservation du ngorongoro”
- French: “Aire de conservation du Ngorongoro”
- French: “Aire De Conservation Du Ngorongoro”
- French: “Zone de conservation de Ngorongoro”
- Galician: “Zona de conservación de Ngorongoro”
- Georgian: “ნგორონგორო”
- German: “Kraterhochland Tansania”
- German: “Ngorongoro Conservation Area”
- German: “Ngorongoro-Krater”
- German: “Ngorongoro-Nationalpark”
- German: “Ngorongoro”
- German: “Schutzgebiet Ngorongoro”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Διατήρησης Νγκορονγκόρο”
- Hebrew: “אזור השימור נגורונגורו”
- Hebrew: “מכתש נגורונגורו”
- Hebrew: “נגורונגורו”
- Hindi: “नगोरोंगोरो संरक्षण क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Ngorongoro Természetvédelmi Terület”
- Indonesian: “Ngorongoro”
- Irish: “Limistéar Caomhantais Ngorongoro”
- Italian: “area di conservazione di Ngorongoro”
- Italian: “Area di conservazione di Ngorongoro”
- Italian: “cratere di Ngorongoro”
- Italian: “riserva naturale di Ngorongoro”
- Japanese: “ンゴロンゴロ”
- Japanese: “ンゴロンゴロ保全地域”
- Japanese: “ンゴロンゴロ自然保護区”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ngorongoro Conservation Area”
- Korean: “응고롱고로 분화구”
- Kotava: “Videxo ke Ngorongoro”
- Lithuanian: “Ngorongoras”
- Macedonian: “Заштитена област Нгоронгоро”
- Malayalam: “ങ്കൊറൊങ്കോറോ സംരക്ഷണ മേഖല”
- Maltese: “Ngorongoro”
- Maltese: “Żona ta‘ Konservazzjoni ta’ Ngorongoro”
- Maltese: “Żona ta’ Konservazzjoni ta’ Ngorongoro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngorongoro naturvernområde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngorongoro”
- Norwegian: “Ngorongoro naturvernområde”
- Persian: “منطقه حفاظت شده انگورونگورو”
- Persian: “منطقهٔ حفاظت شدهٔ انگورونگورو”
- Persian: “منطقه حفاظتشده انگورونگورو”
- Polish: “Ngorongoro”
- Polish: “Rezerwat Ngorongoro”
- Portuguese: “Ngorongoro”
- Portuguese: “Zona de Conservação de Ngorongoro”
- Romanian: “Ngorongoro”
- Russian: “Нгоронгоро”
- Russian: “Охраняемая территория Нгоронгоро”
- Sakizaya: “En-ke-low-en-ke-low pidiputan”
- Serbian: “Нгоронгоро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ngorongoro”
- Slovak: “Chránená oblasť Ngorongoro”
- Slovak: “Ngorongoro”
- Slovenian: “Zavarovano območje Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Crater del Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Cráter del Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Zona de conservacion de Ngorongoro”
- Spanish: “Zona de conservación de Ngorongoro”
- Swahili: “Hifadhi ya Bonde la Ngorongoro”
- Swahili: “Hifadhi ya Ngorongoro”
- Swahili: “Ngorongoro”
- Swedish: “Ngorongoro naturskyddsområde”
- Swedish: “Ngorongoro”
- Swedish: “Ngorongorokratern”
- Tamil: “இங்கொரொங்கோரோ பாதுகாப்புப் பகுதி”
- Thai: “โงรงโงโร”
- Thai: “พื้นที่อนุรักษ์โงรองโกโร”
- Thai: “พื้นที่อนุรักษ์อึงโกรองโกโร”
- Turkish: “Ngorongoro Koruma Alanı”
- Ukrainian: “Кратер Нгоронгоро”
- Ukrainian: “Нгоронгоро (кратер)”
- Ukrainian: “Природоохоронна територія Нгоронгоро”
- Ukrainian: “Природоохоронна територія Нґоронґоро”
- Vietnamese: “Khu bảo tồn Ngorongoro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Konserbasyon nga Lugar han Ngorongoro”
- Yue Chinese: “恩戈羅恩戈羅保護區”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Ngorongoro Conservation Area”. Photo: SajjadF, CC BY 3.0.