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Capital city of Tabora Region, Tanzania

Tabora

Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a municipality by the Tanzanian government.

Tabora
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The place

Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a municipality by the Tanzanian government. It is also the administrative seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012 census, the district had a population of 226,999.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tabora

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.

  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.

    1.3 km · college in Tabora, Tanzania · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Livingstone's Tembe

    Livingstone's Tembe or David Livingstone Museum, Tabora is a national historic site next to the village of Kwihara located in Tabora Urban District of Tabora Region. The home was constructed in 1857.

    8.8 km · national Historic Site of 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Livingstone Tembe Museum. 8am-5pm.

From Wikivoyage: Tabora, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Nazareth Canteen

    Jamhuri St (Near NMB Bank Mihayo branch).

From Wikivoyage: Tabora, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Tabora

Airports
Mwanza (MWZ), 286 km
Stations
Tabora Airport, 7.4 km
  • Mwanza → Tabora
    278 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · TSh29,300–39,100
  • Arusha → Tabora
    465 km · quickest by road, 12h 22m · TSh51,100–68,150
  • Zanzibar → Tabora
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tabora

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 Tabora. 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

    513 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    558 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    565 km
  4. 04
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    718 km
  5. 05
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    756 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tabora

  • Tabora Municipal Districtdistrict in Tabora Region, Tanzania3.3 km
  • Mbuganiward in Chunya District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania1.4 km
  • Chemchemward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania600 m
  • Gongoniward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania700 m
  • Kanyenyeward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region1.6 km
  • Cheyoward in Tabora Urban District, Tabora Region, Tanzania3.8 km