Songea

Songea pronunciation is the capital of in southwestern . It is located along the A19 road. The city has a population of 286,285, and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea.
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  • Type: City with 286,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Songea mjini”, “Songėja”, “Sonĝeo”, and “Ssongea”

Songea

Latitude
-10.6787° or 10° 40′ 43″ south
Longitude
35.6484° or 35° 38′ 54″ east
Population
286,000
Elevation
1,113 metres (3,652 feet)
IATA airport code
SGX
UN/LOCODE
TZ SGX
Open location code
5GXQ8JCX+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258160432
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
877401
Wiki­data ID
Q794813
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Songea” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሶንጊያ”
  • Arabic: “سونجيا”
  • Asturian: “Songea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Songea”
  • Bengali: “সনজেয়া”
  • Bengali: “সোঙ্গেয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Сонгея”
  • Cebuano: “Songea”
  • Chinese: “松盖阿”
  • Chinese: “松蓋阿”
  • Croatian: “Songea”
  • Czech: “Songea”
  • Danish: “Songea”
  • Dutch: “Songea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سونجيا”
  • Esperanto: “Songea”
  • Finnish: “Songea”
  • French: “Songea”
  • Fulah: “Songea”
  • German: “Songea”
  • Greek: “Σονγκέα”
  • Gujarati: “સોન્ગિયા”
  • Hausa: “Songea”
  • Hindi: “सोंगिया”
  • Hindi: “सोंगीय”
  • Indonesian: “Songea”
  • Italian: “Songea”
  • Japanese: “ソンゲア”
  • Javanese: “Songea”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಂಜಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Сонгеа”
  • Kirghiz: “Сонгеа”
  • Korean: “송게아”
  • Kotava: “Songea”
  • Latvian: “Songea”
  • Lithuanian: “Songea”
  • Malagasy: “Songea”
  • Malay: “Songea”
  • Marathi: “सोंजिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Songea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Songea”
  • Norwegian: “Songea”
  • Oromo: “Songea”
  • Panjabi: “سونگیا”
  • Persian: “سانگی”
  • Polish: “Songea”
  • Portuguese: “Songea”
  • Pushto: “سونګيا”
  • Romanian: “Songea”
  • Russian: “Сонгеа”
  • Sinhala: “සොන්ගියා”
  • Somali: “Songea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانقی”
  • Spanish: “Songea”
  • Swahili: “Songea”
  • Swedish: “Songea”
  • Tajik: “Сонгеа”
  • Tamil: “சோங்ஐயா”
  • Tatar: “Songea”
  • Telugu: “సోన్గెయా”
  • Thai: “ซองเจีย”
  • Turkish: “Songea”
  • Ukrainian: “Сонгеа”
  • Urdu: “سونگیا”
  • Uzbek: “Songea”
  • Vietnamese: “Songea”
  • Wu Chinese: “松蓋阿”
  • Yoruba: “Songea”
  • Yue Chinese: “森蓋阿”
  • Zulu: “Songea”

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