Articles in Tanzania ( 341 )

341 Articles of interest in Tanzania

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  • Tunduma

    Tunduma is a border town between Tanzania and Zambia. It lies in Tanzania, in the Mbeya Region. It has border posts for both the Tanzam Highway and the TAZARA railway (for which it has a station) linking the two countries. It is 113 km south-west of…

  • Tulawaka Gold Mine

    Tulawaka Gold Mine was a combined underground and open pit gold mine located in the Biharamulo district, in the Kagera Region of Tanzania. It is operated by African Barrick Gold, who owned 70% of the mine.

  • Tukuyu

    Tukuyu, known as Neu Langenburg during the German colonial rule, is a small, of 50,000 inhabitants, hillside town that lies about 36 miles (58 km) south of the city of Mbeya, at an elevation of around 5,000 ft (1,500 m) in the highland Rungwe Distri…

  • Mount Rungwe

    Mount Rungwe is a potentially active volcano in the Mbeya Region of the southern highlands of Tanzania. At an altitude of 2,960 metres (9,710 ft), it is southern Tanzania's second highest peak. Rungwe stands at the junction of the eastern and wester…

  • Mbudya Island

    Mbudya Island (or simply Mbudya) is an uninhabited island in Tanzania, north of the country's capital city, Dar es Salaam and is one of the four islands of the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve (DMRS).

  • Mbozi meteorite

    Mbozi is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Tanzania. It is one of the world's largest meteorites, variously estimated as the fourth largest to the eighth largest, it is located near the city of Mbeya in Tanzania's southern highlands.

  • Malagarasi River

    The Malagarasi River is a river of southeastern Burundi and northwestern Tanzania, flowing through Kigoma Region. It is the second-longest river in the country, and has the largest watershed of all of the rivers flowing into Lake Tanganyika. The Mal…

  • Longido

    Longido is a small town and ward in Arusha Region in Tanzania. It is the administrative seat for Longido District.

  • Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings

    The Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of caves carved into the side of a hill looking out over the steppe, approximately nine kilometres east of the main highway from Kondoa to Arusha, about 20 km north of Kondoa, in Tanzania. The caves cont…

  • Kitulo National Park

    Kitulo National Park is a protected area of montane grassland on the Kitulo Plateau in the southern highlands of Tanzania. The park is at an elevation of 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) between the peaks of the Kipengere and Poroto mountains and covers an a…

  • Kilwa District

    Kilwa one of the 6 districts of the Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Pwani Region, to the East by the Indian Ocean, to the South by the Lindi Rural District and to the West by the Liwale District.

  • Kibaha

    Kibaha is a city with 23050 inhabitants (2002) located in eastern Tanzania. It is the capital of Pwani Region.

  • Kabanga Nickel Project

    The Kabanga Nickel Project is an active mine exploration project 130 km south west of Lake Victoria in the Ngara District of the Kagera Region in Tanzania. The project is a joint venture between Barrick Gold and Xstrata Nickel.

  • Crater Highlands

    The Crater Highlands (Ngorongoro Highlands) are a region along the East African Rift in Tanzania, located in a spreading zone at the intersection of branches of the African and Somali tectonic plates, resulting in distinctive and prominent landforms.

  • Butiama

    Butiama is a town in northern Tanzania and the birthplace of Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania. Butiama is one of the wards of the Musoma Rural District, and lies within the Mara Region; it is also the local residential area of the Waz…

  • Amboni Caves

    The Amboni Caves are the most extensive limestone caves in East Africa. They are located 8 km north of Tanga City in Tanzania off the Tanga-Mombasa road. The caves were formed about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic age. It covers an area of…

  • Unguja South Region

    Unguja South Region is one of the thirty regions of Tanzania. Located on the island of Zanzibar, the town of Koani serves as the region's capital. As of 2002, the population was 94,504.

  • Tarime District

    Tarime District is one of the six districts of the Mara Region of Tanzania, East Africa. It was previously known as the "North Mara District". It is bordered from the north to east by the Kenyan districts of Migori, Trans Mara and Kisii, and to the …

  • Tanga Airport

    Tanga Airport (IATA: TGT, ICAO: HTTG) is a small domestic airport in northeastern Tanzania serving the city of Tanga and the surrounding Tanga Region.

  • Mto wa Mbu

    Mto wa Mbu, is an administrative ward in the Monduli district of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 11,405. The name Mto wa Mbu means "River of Mosquitoes".

  • Mbulu

    Mbulu is a town in Tanzania and the capital of the Mbulu District. The town is inhabited by people that identify as Iraqw people.

  • Magu District

    Magu District is one of the seven districts of the Mwanza Region of Tanzania, East Africa. Its administrative centre is the town of Magu on the Simiyu River.

  • Machame

    Machame is an area on the south-western slope of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Historically, she was in 1889 referred by Hans Meyer as a great African giant, also the largest and most populous of all the Chagga states in Kilimanjaro, whose ruler as early…

  • Kizimkazi Mosque

    The Kizimkazi Mosque is a mosque situated on the southern tip of the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania and is one of the oldest Islamic buildings on the East African coast. Despite its name, it is located in Dimbani, not Kizimkazi, which is three miles…