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Mabibo

Mabibo is an administrative ward in Ubungo District of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.

Mabibo
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The place

Mabibo is an administrative ward in Ubungo District of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. Manzese and Ubungo border the ward to the north. Makurumla and Mburahati border the ward to the east. Kigogo and Tabata, the latter of which is in Ilala and former of Kinondoni, are to the south. The Makuburi ward is to the west. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population of 85,735.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mabibo

5 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.

  1. 01
    University of Dar es Salaam

    The University of Dar es Salaam is a public university located in Ubungo District, in the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London and became an affiliate of the University of East Africa in 1963, shortly after Tanganyika gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

    3.5 km · university in Tanzania · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of East Africa

    The University of East Africa was established on 29 June 1963 and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the eastern African Great Lakes region. The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London.

    3.8 km · university in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ubungo 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.

    2.7 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial House

    Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial House is a museum dedicated to the Tanzanian founding father Julius Nyerere. It is located in Mzimuni ward of Kinondoni District in the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.

    3.8 km · museum for Julius Nyerere · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ubungo 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.

    2.2 km · building in 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.

Go there

Getting to Mabibo

Airports
Julius Nyerere (DAR), 7 km · Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ), 65 km
  • Zanzibar → Mabibo
    72 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 35m · TSh14,420–43,650
    GuideToday
  • Arusha → Mabibo
    475 km · quickest by air, 5h 56m · TSh165,540–255,100
    GuideToday
  • Mwanza → Mabibo
    848 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · TSh193,870–300,580
    GuideToday
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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 Mabibo

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    71 km
  2. 02
    Pemba IslandTZ

    7 ways of moving, 10 sources

    191 km
  3. 03
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    281 km
  4. 04
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    930 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mabibo

Mabibo is 5 km from Dar es Salaam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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