Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania. With 54,600 km², it is the largest game reserve in Africa. typical Selous nativesMost of the reserve remains set aside for game hunting through a number of privately leased hunting concessions, but a section of the northern park along the Rufiji River has been designated a photographic zone and is a popular tourist destination.Photo: Panii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0.
Selous Game Reserve
- Type: Wildlife reserve
- Description: world Heritage Site in Tanzania, East Africa
- Category: game reserve
- Location: Lindi, Central Tanzania, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-9° or 9° southLongitude
37.5° or 37° 30' eastElevation
393 metres (1,289 feet)Open Location Code
6G3V2G22+22GeoNames ID
150131Wikidata ID
Q2268839Selous Game Reserve Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Selous
- Arabic: محمية سيلوس جام
- Asturian: Reserva de caza Selous
- Avaric: Selous
- Azerbaijani: Selus ov ehtiyatı
- Bashkir: Селус
- Basque: Selous ehiza-babeslekua
- Belarusian: Сэлус
- Bulgarian: Ловен резерват Селус
- Bulgarian: Ловен резерват Селъс
- Burmese: ဆဲလပ်စ် အမဲလိုက်နယ်မြေ ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဒေသ
- Catalan: Reserva de caça de Selous
- Cebuano: Selous Game Reserve
- Chinese: 塞卢斯禁猎区
- Chinese: 塞盧斯禁獵區
- Croatian: Selous
- Czech: Selousova rezervace
- Dagbani: Selous Agodzi Korabea
- Danish: Selous Game naturreservatet
- Danish: Selous vildtreservat
- Dutch: Selous
- Esperanto: Ĉasrezervejo Selous
- Fanti: Selous Agodzi Korabea
- Finnish: Selous
- Finnish: Selousin riistansuojelualue
- French: Réserve de Selous
- French: Réserve de gibier de Selous
- French: Réserve de gibier de Sélous
- French: réserve de gibier de Sélous
- Galician: Reserva de caza de Selous
- Georgian: სელუსის ეროვნული პარკი
- German: Selous
- German: Selous-Game-Reservat
- German: Selous Game Reserve
- German: Wildreservat von Selous
- Hausa: Selous Agodzi Korabea
- Hebrew: סלוס
- Hungarian: Selous Vadvédelmi Terület
- Indonesian: Suaka Margasatwa Selous
- Italian: Riserva Selous
- Italian: Riserva del Selous
- Italian: Riserva selous
- Italian: Selous
- Japanese: セルース動物保護区
- Japanese: セルース猟獣保護区
- Japanese: セルー・ゲーム・リザーブ
- Japanese: セルー動物保護区
- Kotava: Selous
- Lithuanian: Seluso laukinės gamtos rezervatas
- Lithuanian: Seluso medžioklės rezervatas
- Malayalam: സിലൂസ് ഗെയിം റിസർവ്വ്
- Mossi: Selous Agodzi Korabea
- Norwegian: Selous viltreservat
- Norwegian Bokmål: Selous
- Norwegian Bokmål: Selous viltreservat
- Persian: پناهگاه حیات وحش سلوس
- Polish: Selous
- Polish: Selous Game Reserve
- Portuguese: Reserva de Caça de Selous
- Portuguese: Reserva de caça Selous
- Portuguese: Reserva de caça de selous
- Portuguese: Reserva de caça selous
- Portuguese: Selous
- Romanian: Rezervația faunistică Selous
- Romanian: Selous Game Reserve
- Romanian: Selous game reserve
- Russian: Охотничий резерват Селус
- Russian: Селус (национальный парк)
- Russian: Селус (охотничий резерват)
- Russian: Селус
- Serbian: Selus
- Serbian: Резерват животиња Селус
- Serbo-Croatian: Selous
- Spanish: Reserva de caza Selous
- Spanish: Reserva de caza selous
- Swahili: Hifadhi ya Selous
- Swahili: Selous
- Swedish: Selous viltreservat
- Turkish: Selous Av Sahası
- Turkish: Selous Koruma Alanı
- Twi: Selous Mmoa a Wɔkora So
- Ukrainian: Національний парк Селус
- Vietnamese: Khu bảo tồn thú săn Selous
- Waray (Philippines): Selous
- Yue Chinese: 塞盧斯禁獵區
- Hifadhi ya Taifa ya Nyerere
- Riserva faunistica del Selous
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. 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 Selous Game Reserve. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0.