Mecco
Mecco is an administrative ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania.
Mecco is an administrative ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 15,746 people in the ward.
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Worth seeing in and around Mecco
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.
- 01CCM Kirumba Stadium
CCM Kirumba Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Mwanza, Tanzania.
2.7 km · Football stadium in Mwanza, Tanzania · Wikipedia - 02Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences
Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences is a private university in Mwanza, Tanzania.
1.7 km · Private university in Mwanza, 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.
Getting to Mecco
- Airports
- Mwanza (MWZ), 8 km · Entebbe (EBB), 289 km
- Arusha → Mecco425 km · quickest by air, 6h 2m · TSh169,980–261,960
- Zanzibar → Mecco802 km · quickest by air, 6h 33m · TSh189,110–293,180
- Dar es Salaam → Mecco847 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · TSh195,620–303,330
- 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 Mecco
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 Mecco. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Bukoba: After several years out of service, the refurbished ferry between Mwanza and Bukoba has resumed operation under the name MS New Victoria in June 2020.
- Get inThe timetable remains the same as in previous years: the ferry departs Bukoba every Monday, Wednesday, Friday evening around 21:00 and reaches Mwanza the next day in the morning.
- Go nextBukoba Dodoma Tabora Kenya Uganda Rwanda There is a ferry across the Mwanza gulf that leaves from the city (the Kamanga ferry) and another about 32 km south of the city.
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Next door to Mecco
Mecco is 2 km from Mwanza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- MwanzaLakeside City2 km
- Ngara Districtdistrict in Kagera Region, Tanzania2 km
- Nyamagana Districtdistrict in Mwanza Region, Tanzania3.2 km
- Nyakatoward of Ilemela District, in Mwanza Region, Tanzania3.2 km
- Nyamanoroplace in Ilemela District2.9 km
- Kirumbaward of Tanzania3.2 km