Kigoma is a city and lake port in Kigoma-Ujiji District, Tanzania, on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, close to the borders with Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves as the capital of the surrounding Kigoma Region, sits at an elevation of about 775 meters, and has a population of 232,388.
Facts
Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kigoma (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 232,388 (2020)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -4.883333, longitude 29.633333
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 780 m
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 232388 (2020)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Kigoma - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 157738
-4.87694 29.62667 P PPLA TZ 05 1604 1604162 232388 769 Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 769 m
View the Source 3. Kigoma (Wikipedia)
Transport, port and railway sentence
a direct link to the ocean port at Dar es Salaam
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -4.75, 29.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -4.75, 29.75
-4.75 29.75 Aw
Wikidata: Kigoma
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