Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam was founded in 1862 by Sultan Seyyid Majid of Zanzibar on the site of the village of Mzizima. Mzizima's history dates back to when the Barawa people started to settle and cultivate the area around Mbwa Maji, Magogoni, Mjimwema, Gezaulole, and Kibonde Maji Mbagara.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
National Museum of Tanzania
Photo: Moongateclimber, Public domain.
The National Museum of Tanzania is a consortium of five Tanzanian museums whose purpose is to preserve and show exhibits about the history and natural environment of Tanzania.
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dar es Salaam
Photo: alexander johmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Saint Joseph's Metropolitan Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Embassy of Germany, Dar es Salaam
Photo: JanDitzen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Embassy of Germany, Dar es Salaam is a government office.
Localities in the Area
Mwananyamala
Mwananyamala is an administrative ward in Kinondoni District of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.Dar es Salaam
- Type: City with 4,360,000 residents
- Description: largest city in Tanzania and capital of Dar es Salaam Region
- Categories: port settlement, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Gerezani, Ilala Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam Region, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-6.8161° or 6° 48' 58" southLongitude
39.2804° or 39° 16' 49" eastPopulation
4,360,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)IATA airport code
DARUnited Nations Location Code
TZ DAROpen Location Code
6G5X57MJ+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 27565027OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
160263Wikidata ID
Q1960Dar es Salaam Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Dar-es-Salaam
- Albanian: Dar es Salam
- Amharic: ዳር ኤስ ሳላም
- Arabic: Dar es Salaam
- Arabic: دار السلام
- Aragonese: Dar es Salaam
- Armenian: Դար-էս-Սալամ
- Arpitan: Dar es Salam
- Asturian: Dar es-Salaam
- Asturian: Dar es Salaam
- Avaric: Dar es-Salaam
- Azerbaijani: Dar-əs-Salam
- Azerbaijani: Dar əs Salam
- Bashkir: Дар-әс-Сәләм
- Basque: Dar es Salaam
- Belarusian: Дар-эс-Салам
- Bengali: দারুস সালাম
- Bosnian: Dar es Salaam
- Breton: Dar es Salaam
- Bulgarian: Дар ес-Салаам
- Bulgarian: Дар ес Салаам
- Burmese: ဒါအက်စ် ဆယ်လန်းမြို့
- Catalan: Dar es Salaam
- Cebuano: Dar es Salaam
- Chechen: Дар-эс-Салам
- Chinese: Dar es Salaam
- Chinese: 三兰港
- Chinese: 三蘭港
- Chinese: 达累斯萨拉姆
- Croatian: Dar-es-Salaam
- Croatian: Dar es Salaam
- Czech: Dar es Salaam
- Danish: Dar es-Salaam
- Dutch: Dar es Salaam
- Egyptian Arabic: دارالسلام
- Egyptian Arabic: دار السلام
- English: Dar es-Salaam
- Esperanto: Daresalamo
- Esperanto: Dar es salaam
- Estonian: Dar es Salaam
- Faroese: Dar es Salaam
- Finnish: Dar es Salaam
- French: Dar Es Salam
- French: Dar es Salaam
- French: Dar es Salam
- Galician: Dar es Salaam
- Georgian: დარ-ეს-სალამი
- German: Dar Es Salaam
- German: Dar as-Salam
- German: Dar es Salaam
- German: Daressalam
- German: Mzizima
- Greek: Νταρ ες Σαλάμ
- Greek: Ντοντόμα
- Gujarati: દાર ઍસ સલામ
- Hausa: Dar es Salaam
- Hebrew: דאר א-סלאם
- Hindi: दार अस सलाम
- Hindi: दार एस सलाम
- Hungarian: Dar es-Salaam
- Icelandic: Dar es Salaam
- Ido: Dar-es-Salaam
- Indonesian: Dar-es-Salaam
- Indonesian: Dar es Salaam
- Interlingua: Dar es Salaam
- Interlingue: Daressalaam
- Irish: Dar es Salaam
- Irish: Dárasalám
- Italian: Dar es Salaam
- Japanese: ダルエスサラーム
- Javanese: Dar es Salaam
- Kabiyè: Taɖɛsalam
- Kalaallisut: Dar es Salaam
- Kannada: ದಾರ್ ಅಸ್ ಸಲಾಮ್
- Kannada: ದಾರ್ ಎಸ್ ಸಲಾಮ್
- Kazakh: Даруссалам
- Kirghiz: Дар-эс-Салам шаары
- Korean: 다르에스살람
- Korean: 다르 에스 살람
- Korean: 음지지마
- Kotava: Dar es-Salaam
- Kurdish: Dar es Salaam
- Latin: Dar es Salaam
- Latvian: Dāresalāma
- Ligurian: Dar es Salaam
- Lithuanian: Dar es Salamas
- Lombard: Dar es Salaam
- Low German: Daressalam
- Luxembourgish: Dar es Salaam
- Macedonian: Дар ес Салам
- Malagasy: Dar es Salam
- Malay: Dar es Salaam
- Malayalam: ദാർ എസ് സലാം
- Maori: Dar es Salaam
- Marathi: दार एस सलाम
- Min Nan Chinese: Dar es Salaam
- Mongolian: Дар эс Салам
- Navajo: Hózhǫ́ǫ́jí Kin Haalʼá
- Norwegian: Dar-es-Salaam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dar-es-Salaam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dar es Salaam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Daressalaam
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dar-es-Salaam
- Occitan (post 1500): Dar es Salaam
- Ossetian: Дар-эс-Салам
- Panjabi: ਦਾਰ ਅਸ ਸਲਾਮ
- Papiamento: Dar Es Salaam
- Persian: دارالسلام
- Piemontese: Dar es Salaam
- Polish: Dar es Salaam
- Polish: Dar es Salam
- Polish: Mzizima
- Portuguese: Dar es Salaam
- Pushto: دارالسلام
- Quechua: Dar es Salaam
- Romanian: Dar es Salaam
- Russian: Дар-эс-Салам
- Samogitian: Dar es Salams
- Scots: Dar es Salaam
- Scottish Gaelic: Dar es Salaam
- Serbian: Дар ес Салам
- Serbo-Croatian: Dar es Salaam
- Shona: Dar es Salaam
- Sicilian: Dar es Salaam
- Silesian: Dar es Salaam
- Sinhala: ඩර් එස් සලාම්
- Sinhala: දරස් සලාම්
- Slovak: Dar es Salaam
- Slovak: Dar es Salám
- Slovenian: Dar es Salaam
- Somali: Dar es Salaam
- South Azerbaijani: دارالسلام (تانزانیا)
- South Azerbaijani: دارالسلام
- Spanish: Dar as-Salam
- Spanish: Dar as Salam
- Spanish: Dar es-Salaam
- Spanish: Dar es-Salam
- Spanish: Dar es Salaam
- Swahili: Dar es Salaam
- Swedish: Dar es-Salaam
- Swiss German: Daressalaam
- Tagalog: Dar es Salaam
- Tajik: Дар Ассалом
- Tamil: தாருசலாம்
- Tamil: தாருஸ்ஸலாம்
- Tamil: தார் எஸ் ஸலாம்
- Telugu: దార్ ఎస్ సలామ్
- Thai: ดาร์-เอส-ซาลาม
- Tibetan: ཏ་རེ་སི་ས་ལམ།
- Tosk Albanian: Daressalaam
- Tumbuka: Dar es Salaam
- Turkish: Darüsselam
- Turkmen: Dar es Salam
- Uighur: دارېسسالام
- Ukrainian: Дар-ес-Салам
- Urdu: دارالسلام
- Uzbek: Dar es Salam
- Uzbek: Dorussalom
- Venetian: Dar es Salaam
- Veps: Dar Es Salam
- Vietnamese: Dar es Salaam
- Waray (Philippines): Dar es Salaam
- Welsh: Dar es Salaam
- Western Frisian: Dar es Salaam
- Western Mari: Дар-эс-Салам
- Western Panjabi: دارالسلام
- Wu Chinese: 达累斯萨拉姆
- Yiddish: דאר עס סאלאאם
- Yoruba: Dar es Salaam
- Yue Chinese: 三蘭港
- Zulu: Dar es Salaam
- Dār es Salām
- Tarɛsalam
Other Places Named Dar es Salaam
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Dar es Salaam. Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.