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Kanyenye

Kanyenye is an administrative ward in Tabora Urban District of Tabora Region in Tanzania.

The place

Kanyenye is an administrative ward in Tabora Urban District of Tabora Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 99.92 km2 (38.58 sq mi), and has an average elevation of 1,200 m (3,900 ft). According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 10,063.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kanyenye

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
    Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora

    The Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora is a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tabora, Tanzania.

    700 m · college in Tabora, Tanzania · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kanyenye

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 287 km
  • Mwanza → Kanyenye
    257 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · TSh29,750–39,650
  • Arusha → Kanyenye
    452 km · quickest by road, 12h 47m · TSh51,450–68,600
  • Zanzibar → Kanyenye
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kanyenye

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA boda-boda (bicycle taxi) starts from 1000 inside the city (Feb 2019).

From Wikivoyage: Tabora, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    514 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    560 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    566 km
  4. 04
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    716 km
  5. 05
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    754 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kanyenye

Kanyenye is 2 km from Tabora, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Taboracity in Tanzania1.6 km
  • Tabora Municipal Districtdistrict in Tabora Region, Tanzania1.6 km
  • Mbuganiward in Chunya District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania3 km
  • Chemchemward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania1.2 km
  • Gongoniward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania1.4 km
  • Cheyoward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania2.2 km