Kimanga
Kimanga is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.
Kimanga is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. The wards of Ubungo MC are bordered to the north by the wards of Makuburi and Kimara. The ward is bordered by Segerea to the south and Tabata to the east. Kinyerezi borders the ward on its western side. According to the 2022 census, the ward has a total population of 50,340.
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Worth seeing in and around Kimanga
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.
- 01Ubungo I Thermal Power Station
Ubungo I Thermal Power Station, also known as the Ubungo Power Plant, is a natural gas-fueled power plant located in Ubungo of Ubungo District in Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. It began commercial operations on 30 July 2008 with an installed capacity of 110 megawatts.
3.9 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia - 02Ubungo II Thermal Power Station
Ubungo II Thermal Power Station was an extension to the Ubungo I Power Station and began commercial operations in 2012. The power-plant is located in Ubungo of Ubungo District in Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.
3.7 km · building in Tanzania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kimanga
- Airports
- Julius Nyerere (DAR), 5 km · Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ), 67 km
- Zanzibar → Kimanga1156 km · quickest by air, 8h 35m · TSh348,390–540,020
- Arusha → Kimanga838 km · quickest by air, 9h 58m · TSh315,380–487,280
- Mwanza → Kimanga429 km · quickest by air, 7h 38m · TSh204,280–316,630
- 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 Kimanga
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 Kimanga. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLook for those marked POSTA, which is the main Post Office in the city centre next to the ferry terminal.
- Get inHitchhiking is uncommon, dangerous, and most drivers will expect some form of payment from foreigners.
- Get inThe BRT runs on dedicated lanes, bypassing traffic jams that slow down regular cars and minibuses (dala-dala).
- Get inPhase 1: Connects Kimara in the west to Kivukoni Ferry and Morocco, passing through the city centre (Posta).
- Get inTravellers can take a short taxi, ride-hail, or dala-dala from the airport to connect to the nearest BRT stops along Nyerere Road, then continue by BRT into the city centre or other destinations.
From Wikivoyage: Dar es Salaam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Kimanga – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kimanga
Kimanga is 7 km from Dar es Salaam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.