Tunduma is a city in the Songwe Region of Tanzania, on the border with Zambia, and 103 kilometres south-west of Mbeya. It has border posts for both the Tanzam Highway and the TAZARA railway, which has a station there, and it is the junction for the tarmac road that runs through Sumbawanga and the remote western districts to Kasulu and Kibondo in the north-west. The 2022 census recorded 219,309 people. Tunduma is known informally as the gateway to East Africa for traffic coming from Zambia, and it is described as one of the most famous border cities within the SADCC countries. Across the border lies Nakonde, which is immediately opposite it on the Zambian side.
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1. Tunduma (Wikipedia)
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it has a population of 219,309
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Tunduma is a city in Songwe Region, Tanzania, on the border between Tanzania and Zambia.
On Continent: Africa, Lead, country location
Tunduma is a city in Songwe Region, Tanzania
In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Lead, country location (Tanzania is in the UN M49 subregion Eastern Africa)
is a city in Songwe Region, Tanzania
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at Tunduma
Opentopodata (SRTM)SRTM 90 m elevation at the GeoNames coordinates -9.3, 32.766667Quote, SRTM 90 m elevation at the GeoNames coordinates -9.3, 32.766667
"elevation": 1698.0
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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