Tanga

Tanga Pronunciation 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”, “Tanga, Tanzania”, “Tangaio”, “Tangao”, “Tangio”, “Танга (Танзанія)”, and “تنگا”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bombo Hospital and Mkwakwani Stadium.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bombo Regional Hospital is the referral regional in Tanga, .

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Tanga, .

School
was a co-educational…

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
UN/LOCODE
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 Amharic to Zulu—“Tanga” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታንጋ”
  • Arabic: “تنجا”
  • Armenian: “Տանգա”
  • Asturian: “Tanga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanga”
  • Basque: “Tanga (Tanzania)”
  • Basque: “Tanga”
  • Belarusian: “Танга”
  • Bengali: “টাঙ্গা”
  • Bengali: “তাঙ্গা”
  • 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”
  • Finnish: “Tanga”
  • French: “Tanga”
  • German: “Tanga”
  • Greek: “Τάνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “ટાંગા”
  • Hausa: “Tanga, Tanzaniya”
  • Hausa: “Tanga”
  • Hebrew: “טאנגה”
  • Hindi: “तांगा”
  • Hindi: “तेंगा”
  • Hungarian: “Tanga”
  • Indonesian: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Indonesian: “Tanga”
  • Irish: “Tanga”
  • Italian: “Tanga”
  • Japanese: “タンガ”
  • Javanese: “Tanga”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tanga”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾನ್ಗ ,”
  • Kazakh: “Tanga”
  • Kirghiz: “Tanga”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Tanga”
  • Panjabi: “تانگا”
  • Persian: “تانگا، تانزانیا”
  • Persian: “تانگا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان تانگا”
  • Polish: “Tanga”
  • Portuguese: “Tanga”
  • Pushto: “تانگا”
  • Romanian: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Romanian: “Tanga”
  • Russian: “Танга”
  • Serbian: “Танга”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්ගා”
  • Slovenian: “Tanga”
  • Somali: “Tanga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تانقا، تانزانیا”
  • Spanish: “Tanga”
  • Swahili: “Tanga”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Tanga”
  • Swedish: “Tanga”
  • Tajik: “Tanga”
  • Tamil: “தங்கா”
  • Tatar: “Tanga”
  • Telugu: “టాన్గా”
  • Thai: “ทังกา”
  • Tumbuka: “Tanga, Tanzania”
  • Turkish: “Tanga, Tanzanya”
  • Turkish: “Tanga”
  • Ukrainian: “Танга”
  • Ukrainian: “Танґа”
  • Urdu: “تانگا، تنزانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tanga”
  • 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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