Mafinga is a town in the Iringa Region of Tanzania and the seat of Mafinga Town Council, one of the five districts of the region. The Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics reported 74,963 people in the town in 2016, up from 51,902 in 2012. The town lies in the Southern Highlands at an altitude of about 1,871 metres, and it appears as number thirty-one in the Wikipedia list of cities in Tanzania, which gives the 2012 census figure of 51,902. The Wikipedia entry describes the Mafinga Town Council as one of the five districts of the Iringa Region.
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1. Mafinga (Wikipedia)
Lead, population
there were 74,963 people in the town
Part Of: Tanzania, Lead
one of the five districts of the Iringa Region of Tanzania
On Continent: Africa, Lead, country location
one of the five districts of the Iringa Region of Tanzania
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Lead, country location (Tanzania is in the UN M49 subregion Eastern Africa)
one of the five districts of the Iringa Region of Tanzania
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation at -8.2968,35.2958
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -8.2968,35.2958Quote, SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates -8.2968,35.2958
"elevation": 1850.0
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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