Tabora
Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a municipality by the Tanzanian government.
Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a municipality by the Tanzanian government. It is also the administrative seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012 census, the district had a population of 226,999.
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Worth seeing in and around Tabora
2 places 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.
- 01Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora
The Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora is a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tabora, Tanzania.
1.3 km · college in Tabora, Tanzania · Wikipedia - 02Livingstone's Tembe
Livingstone's Tembe or David Livingstone Museum, Tabora is a national historic site next to the village of Kwihara located in Tabora Urban District of Tabora Region. The home was constructed in 1857.
8.8 km · national Historic Site of Tanzania · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Livingstone Tembe Museum. 8am-5pm.
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Where to eat
- 01Nazareth Canteen
Jamhuri St (Near NMB Bank Mihayo branch).
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Getting to Tabora
- Airports
- Mwanza (MWZ), 286 km
- Stations
- Tabora Airport, 7.4 km
- Mwanza → Tabora278 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · TSh29,300–39,100
- Arusha → Tabora465 km · quickest by road, 12h 22m · TSh51,100–68,150
- Zanzibar → TaboraTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tabora
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 Tabora. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA boda-boda (bicycle taxi) starts from 1000 inside the city (Feb 2019).
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If you know how people move in Tabora – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Tabora
- Tabora Municipal Districtdistrict in Tabora Region, Tanzania3.3 km
- Mbuganiward in Chunya District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania1.4 km
- Chemchemward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania600 m
- Gongoniward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania700 m
- Kanyenyeward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region1.6 km
- Cheyoward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania3.8 km