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Town and capital of Geita Region, Tanzania

Geita

Geita is a city and regional capital of Geita Region in northwestern Tanzania.

Geita
Geita · Barry Marsh from London, England (Public domain)
The place

Geita is a city and regional capital of Geita Region in northwestern Tanzania. The city is known for its gold trade. Geita, with a population of 318,006, is located in the centre of a gold mining area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Geita

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Geita

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Geita is a diocese located in Geita in the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza in Tanzania.

    1.5 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in Tanzania · Wikipedia

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Getting to Geita

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 92 km · Kigali (KGL), 253 km
  • Mwanza → Geita
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · TSh9,900–13,200
  • Arusha → Geita
    497 km · quickest by air, 9h 52m · TSh225,080–344,110
  • Kigali → Geita
    262 km · quickest by road, 8h 18m · RF17,300–23,100
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Geita

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Geita. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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