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Tabora
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.

Plan a trip to Tabora→From Mwanza

It is also the administrative seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012 census, the district had a population of 226,999.

Get in

Getting to Tabora

As the long-distance trains are notoriously delayed and the schedule may change on short notice, it is best to get up-to-date information from the railway station of departure directly.

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    Railway

    Tabora railway station is one of the biggest on the Tanzanian network and an important junction between Dar Es Salaam, Kigoma, Mwanza and Mpanda.

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    NBS

    TSh40,000.

See

Worth seeing

Livingstone Tembe Museum. 8am-5pm.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Nazareth Canteen

    Jamhuri St (Near NMB Bank Mihayo branch).

How locals move

Getting around Tabora the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Trougnouf (CC BY 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.