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Nyasaka

Nyasaka is an administrative ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania with a postcode number 33214.

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Nyasaka is an administrative ward in Ilemela District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania with a postcode number 33214. In the national census of 2002, the ward had a total population of 27,356. This was before the split from Nyamagana District on 1 October 2012, when Ilemela became a District Council with a total of 20 wards and in the National Census of 2012, the district had a population of 265,911.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nyasaka

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 6 km · Entebbe (EBB), 288 km
  • Arusha → Nyasaka
    429 km · quickest by air, 5h 52m · TSh165,040–254,310
  • Zanzibar → Nyasaka
    807 km · quickest by air, 6h 23m · TSh184,170–285,530
  • Dar es Salaam → Nyasaka
    852 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · TSh190,680–295,680
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nyasaka

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 Nyasaka. 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

    242 km
  2. 02
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    764 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    804 km

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Next door to Nyasaka

Nyasaka is 4 km from Mwanza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.