Korogwe is a town in the Tanga Region of Tanzania and the main centre of Korogwe District, where tributaries of the Pangani River drain the land. It had 62,032 people in 2022. It is a road and rail junction where the routes from Tanga meet those running from Dar es Salaam to the northern cities of Arusha and Moshi. The town is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Tanga, with a cathedral dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, and it has a teacher training college and several secondary schools. The Magunga district hospital houses the NIMR Korogwe Research Laboratory, a building designed by the Danish architect Jakob Knudsen and opened in September 2008, which has supported malaria vaccine trials.
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1. Korogwe (Wikipedia)
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with a population of 62,032 in 2022
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Korogwe is a town in Tanzania
On Continent: Africa, Lead, country location
Korogwe is a town in Tanzania
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Lead, country location (Tanzania is in the UN M49 subregion Eastern Africa)
a town in Tanzania, with a population of 62,032 in 2022
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation at -5.1558,38.4503
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -5.1558,38.4503Quote, SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -5.1558,38.4503
"elevation": 309.0
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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