Kasulu is the largest city in the Kigoma Region of north-western Tanzania, near the international border with Burundi, and was recorded at 238,321 people in 2022, which made it the fourteenth most populous city in the country. It sits at the centre of Kasulu District about 78 kilometres by road north-east of Kigoma and about 800 kilometres north-west of Dodoma. Kasulu became a town council in 2011 and is administered as a district of its own, divided into two divisions and fifteen urban wards. Its people speak Kiswahili and Ha, and more than 85 percent of them live from crops and livestock, growing maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes and bananas for food and coffee, tobacco and sugar cane for sale. Its older name in local use is Igasulo.
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1. Kasulu (Wikipedia)
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with a population of 238,321 as of 2022
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the fourteenth most populous city in Tanzania
On Continent: Africa, Lead, country location
the fourteenth most populous city in Tanzania
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Lead, country location (Tanzania is in the UN M49 subregion Eastern Africa)
the fourteenth most populous city in Tanzania
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation at -4.58,30.1
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -4.58,30.1Quote, SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -4.58,30.1
"elevation": 1320.0
3. East Africa Time (Wikipedia)
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with a standard offset of UTC+03:00 from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is one of the most widely used time zones in Africa, adopted by countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, and others.
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