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Nyakato

Nyakato is an administrative Ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania.

The place

Nyakato is an administrative Ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 127,736 people in the ward, from 82,348 in 2012 when Nyamagana District split.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nyakato

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 9 km · Entebbe (EBB), 291 km
  • Arusha → Nyakato
    424 km · quickest by air, 6h 6m · TSh171,330–264,060
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  • Zanzibar → Nyakato
    72 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 29m · TSh12,810–41,150
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  • Dar es Salaam → Nyakato
    3 km · quickest by road, 13 min · TSh490–660
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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 Nyakato

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Mwanza, 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

    245 km
  2. 02
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    291 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    762 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    802 km

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Next door to Nyakato

Nyakato is 5 km from Mwanza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Buzurugaplace in Ilemela District800 m
  • Meccoplace in Ilemela District3.2 km
  • Nyasakaplace in Ilemela District3.1 km
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