Upanga East
Upanga East is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.
Upanga East is an administrative ward of the Ilala Municipical Council of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. Kivukoni forms the ward's northern boundary. Kisutu borders the ward to the east, and Mchafukoge and Jangwani border it to the south. By Upanga West, to the west. The ward is home to the Tanzanian National Library. According to the 2022 census, the ward has a total population of 9,317.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Upanga East
- Airports
- Julius Nyerere (DAR), 11 km · Abeid Amani Karume (ZNZ), 65 km
- Zanzibar → Upanga East71 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 22m · TSh11,180–38,120
- Arusha → Upanga East478 km · quickest by air, 6h 7m · TSh169,840–261,800
- Mwanza → Upanga East852 km · quickest by air, 4h 53m · TSh198,170–307,280
- 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 Upanga East
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 Upanga East. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLook for those marked POSTA, which is the main Post Office in the city centre next to the ferry terminal.
- Get inHitchhiking is uncommon, dangerous, and most drivers will expect some form of payment from foreigners.
- Get inThe BRT runs on dedicated lanes, bypassing traffic jams that slow down regular cars and minibuses (dala-dala).
- Get inPhase 1: Connects Kimara in the west to Kivukoni Ferry and Morocco, passing through the city centre (Posta).
- Get inTravellers can take a short taxi, ride-hail, or dala-dala from the airport to connect to the nearest BRT stops along Nyerere Road, then continue by BRT into the city centre or other destinations.
From Wikivoyage: Dar es Salaam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Upanga East – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Upanga East
Upanga East is 2 km from Dar es Salaam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.