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Town in Shinyanga Region, Tanzania

Kahama

Kahama is a town in north-western Tanzania.

Kahama
Kahama · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Kahama is a town in north-western Tanzania. The town serves as the headquarters of Kahama Urban District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kahama

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 Kahama

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kahama is a diocese located in Kahama in the ecclesiastical province of Tabora in Tanzania.

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

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Getting to Kahama

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 159 km
Stations
Kahama Airstrip, 9.7 km
  • Mwanza → Kahama
    150 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · TSh22,450–29,900
  • Arusha → Kahama
    456 km · quickest by road, 12h 35m · TSh50,950–67,900
  • Zanzibar → Kahama
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kahama

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 Kahama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    381 km
  2. 02
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    433 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    774 km
  5. 05
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    776 km

If you know how people move in Kahama – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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