Gongolamboto
Gongolamboto or also Gongo la Mboto is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.
Gongolamboto or also Gongo la Mboto is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. Kinyerezi ward encircles the ward on its northern side. Ukonga is to the east, and Majohe Ward is to the south. Pugu is to the west. The ward is known for the 2011 Dar es Salaam explosions. In old colonial maps the area is spelled Kongoramboto.
According to the 2022 census, the ward has a total population of 63,043.
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Worth seeing in and around Gongolamboto
3 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.
- 01Kampala International University in Tanzania
Kampala International University in Tanzania is a private university located in Gongo la Mboto ward of Ilala City in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
500 m · university in Tanzania · Wikipedia - 02Kinyerezi I Thermal Power Station
Kinyerezi I Thermal Power Station, also Kinyerezi 1 Thermal Power Station or Kinyerezi 1 Gas Plant, is a 150 MW, natural gas powered, electricity generating power station in Tanzania.
2.7 km · building in Tanzania · Wikipedia - 03Kinyerezi II Thermal Power Station
Kinyerezi II Thermal Power Station is a 240 MW, natural gas powered, electricity generating power station in Tanzania.
2.7 km · building in Tanzania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gongolamboto
- Airports
- Julius Nyerere (DAR), 6 km · Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ), 74 km
- Zanzibar → Gongolamboto80 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 4m · TSh22,320–55,950
- Arusha → Gongolamboto477 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · TSh164,190–253,000
- Mwanza → Gongolamboto846 km · quickest by air, 4h 39m · TSh192,520–298,480
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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 Gongolamboto
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 Gongolamboto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Gongolamboto – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gongolamboto
Gongolamboto is 14 km from Dar es Salaam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ukongahuman settlement3.4 km