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Mbugani

Mbugani is an administrative ward in the Chunya district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Mbugani
Mbugani · Kelvin Philipo
The place

Mbugani is an administrative ward in the Chunya district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 9,626 people in the ward, from 8,734 in 2012.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mbugani

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.

    2.8 km · 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 Mbugani

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 285 km
  • Mwanza → Mbugani
    738 km · quickest by road, 20h 22m · TSh91,500–122,000
  • Arusha → Mbugani
    638 km · quickest by road, 17h 46m · TSh68,450–91,300
  • Zanzibar → Mbugani
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mbugani

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 Mbugani. 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

    512 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    557 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    564 km
  4. 04
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    719 km
  5. 05
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    757 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mbugani

Mbugani is 4 km from Tabora, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Kanyenyeward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region3.1 km
  • Isevyaward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region3.5 km