Mtwara
Mtwara is the capital city of Mtwara Region in southeastern Tanzania. In the 1940s, it was planned and constructed as the export facility for the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme, but was somewhat neglected when the scheme was abandoned in 1951.Mtwara
- Type: City with 141,000 residents
- Description: city
- Category: locality
- Location: Shangani, Mtwara Urban, Mtwara, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-10.2838° or 10° 17' 2" southLongitude
40.1789° or 40° 10' 44" eastPopulation
141,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open Location Code
5HX2P58H+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 258162316OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
877747Wikidata ID
Q646684Mtwara Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: متوارا
- Asturian: Mtwara
- Avaric: Mtwara
- Bengali: মেটওয়ারা
- Bulgarian: Мтвара
- Catalan: Mtwara
- Cebuano: Mtwara
- Chinese: 姆特瓦拉
- Chinese: 姆特華拉
- Croatian: Mtwara
- Danish: Mtwara
- Dutch: Mtwara
- Egyptian Arabic: متوارا
- Esperanto: Mtwara
- Esperanto: Mtŭaro
- Finnish: Mtwara
- French: Mtwara
- German: Mtwara
- Greek: Μτβάρα
- Gujarati: મત્વરા
- Hebrew: מטווארה
- Hindi: त्वारा
- Hungarian: Mtwara
- Indonesian: Mtwara
- Italian: Mtwara
- Japanese: ムトワラ
- Kannada: ಮೌಂಟ್ರಾ
- Korean: 므트와라
- Korean: 엠톼라
- Korean: 음트와라
- Kotava: Mtwara
- Latvian: Mtvara
- Lithuanian: Mtvara
- Malay: Mtwara
- Marathi: मत्वरा
- Norwegian: Mtwara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mtwara
- Persian: امتوارا
- Polish: Mtwara
- Portuguese: Mtwara
- Romanian: Mtwara
- Russian: Мтвара
- Sinhala: ට්වරා
- South Azerbaijani: امتوارا
- Spanish: Mtwara
- Swahili: Mtwara
- Swedish: Mtwara
- Tamil: மட்வாரா
- Telugu: త్వారా
- Thai: มทวารา
- Turkish: Mtwara
- Ukrainian: Мтвара
- Urdu: متوارا
- Vietnamese: Mtwara
- Yoruba: Mtwara
- Yue Chinese: 姆特華拉
- Zulu: Mtwara
- Mikindani
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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 Wikipdia page Mtwara. Photo: VonTasha, CC BY 3.0.