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Population8,997
GeoNames
RegionRuvuma
Elevation471 m
1,545 ft
Time zoneAfrica/Dar es Salaam
Nearest airportSongea Airport (SGX)
111 km
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About Mbamba Bay
Mbamba Bay is a town in western Tanzania, lying on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi/Lake Nyasa.
From the Wikipedia article Mbamba Bay (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Songea Airport (SGX) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 111 km away.
- Liuli 27 km northwest, about 27 min by car
- Tingi 29 km east, about 29 min by car
- Mbinga 48 km northeast, about 48 min by car
- Matiri 61 km north, about 1 h by car
- Kigonsera 62 km northeast, about 1 h by car
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Mbamba Bay 2012 ufukoni Tamino, D. Tamino Böhm, assent by email of 10 and 11 June, 2014 for license CC-Lizenz by-sa with attribution, CC BY-SA 4.0
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