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Songo Mnara

Songo Mnara is a historic Swahiili settlement located in Songo Mnara Island in , Kilwa District in of . The island is home to a Medieval Swahili stone town.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ruins of a stone town in Tanzania
  • Also known as: “Ruins of Songo Mnara”

Songo Mnara

Latitude
-9.03932° or 9° 2′ 22″ south
Longitude
39.55148° or 39° 33′ 5″ east
Open location code
6G2XXH62+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 584174622
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q2301527
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Songo Mnara” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sonqo-Mnara”
  • Basque: “Songo Mnara”
  • Bengali: “সংগো ম্নারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Сонго Мнара”
  • Burmese: “ဆွန်ဂို အွန်အားရာ”
  • Catalan: “Songo Mnara”
  • Chinese: “松戈馬拉”
  • Chinese: “松戈马拉”
  • Chinese: “鬆戈馬拉”
  • Croatian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Czech: “Songo Mnara”
  • Dutch: “Songo Mnara”
  • Esperanto: “Songo Mnara”
  • Finnish: “Songo Mnara”
  • French: “Songo Mnara”
  • Georgian: “სონგო მნარა”
  • Georgian: “სონგო-მნარა”
  • German: “Songo Mnara”
  • Hebrew: “סונגו מנארה”
  • Indonesian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Italian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Japanese: “ソンゴ・ムナラ遺跡”
  • Kotava: “Songo Mnara”
  • Maltese: “Songo Mnara”
  • Mingrelian: “სონგო-მნარა”
  • Persian: “سونگو منارا”
  • Polish: “Songo Mnara”
  • Portuguese: “Songo Mnara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Slovak: “Songo Mnara”
  • Slovenian: “Songo Mnara”
  • Spanish: “Songo Mnara”
  • Swahili: “Songo Mnara”
  • Swedish: “Songo Mnara”
  • Turkish: “Songo Mnara”
  • Vietnamese: “Songo Mnara”

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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 Wikipedia page “Songo Mnara”. Photo: Plouf250, CC BY-SA 4.0.