Tanga
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Tanga

Tanga is a historic city and the capital of . The city is located in the northern port city of to the west of the Indian Ocean on Tanga Bay.
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  • Type: City with 393,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Longa” and “Tanga, Tanzania”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bombo Hospital and Mkwakwani Stadium.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bombo Regional Hospital is the referral regional in Tanga, . It was built by the Germans in 1901, the first hospital in East Africa. The hospital is affiliated with the National Institute of Medical Research center in Tanga, to which it is adjacent.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Tanga, . It is used mostly for football matches, being the home venue for Coastal Union F.C., African Sports, and JKT Mgambo. It has a seating capacity of 15,000 people.

School
was a co-educational, private, secondary school in the north-eastern city of Tanga. It was one of the oldest schools in the city.

Tanga

Latitude
-5.0722° or 5° 4′ 20″ south
Longitude
39.0993° or 39° 5′ 58″ east
Population
393,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
TGT
United Nations Location Code
TZ TGT
Open location code
6G6XW3HX+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255615843
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
149606
Wiki­data ID
Q152902
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Tanga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تنجا”
  • Arabic: “تنگا”
  • Armenian: “Տանգա”
  • Asturian: “Tanga”
  • Belarusian: “Танга (Танзанія)”
  • Belarusian: “Танга”
  • Bengali: “টাঙ্গা”
  • Bulgarian: “Танга”
  • Catalan: “Tanga”
  • Cebuano: “Tanga”
  • Central Kurdish: “تانگا، تانزانیا”
  • Chinese: “坦噶”
  • Croatian: “Tanga”
  • Czech: “Tanga”
  • Danish: “Tanga”
  • Dutch: “Tanga”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تنجا”
  • Esperanto: “Tanga”
  • Esperanto: “Tangaio”
  • Esperanto: “Tangao”
  • Esperanto: “Tangio”
  • Finnish: “Tanga”
  • French: “Tanga”
  • German: “Tanga”
  • Greek: “Τάνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “ટાંગા”
  • Hausa: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Hausa: “Tanga, Tanzaniya”
  • Hebrew: “טאנגה”
  • Hindi: “तेंगा”
  • Hungarian: “Tanga”
  • Indonesian: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Indonesian: “Tanga”
  • Irish: “Tanga”
  • Italian: “Tanga”
  • Japanese: “タンガ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tanga”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾನ್ಗ ,”
  • Korean: “탕가”
  • Kotava: “Tanga”
  • Latvian: “Tanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Tanga”
  • Malay: “Tanga”
  • Maori: “Tanga”
  • Marathi: “टांगा”
  • Moksha: “Танга”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanga i Tanzania”
  • Norwegian: “Tanga”
  • Persian: “تانگا، تانزانیا”
  • Persian: “تانگا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان تانگا”
  • Polish: “Tanga”
  • Portuguese: “Tanga”
  • Romanian: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Romanian: “Tanga”
  • Russian: “Танга”
  • Serbian: “Танга”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්ගා”
  • Slovenian: “Tanga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تانقا، تانزانیا”
  • Spanish: “Tanga”
  • Swahili: “Tanga”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Tanga”
  • Swedish: “Tanga”
  • Tamil: “தங்கா”
  • Telugu: “టాన్గా”
  • Thai: “ทังกา”
  • Tumbuka: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Turkish: “Tanga, Tanzanya”
  • Turkish: “Tanga”
  • Ukrainian: “Танга”
  • Ukrainian: “Танґа”
  • Urdu: “تانگا، تنزانیہ”
  • Venetian: “Tanga”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tanga”
  • Welsh: “Tanga”
  • Yoruba: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Yoruba: “Tanga”
  • Yue Chinese: “坦噶”
  • Zulu: “Tanga, Thanzaniya”

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