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Moshi

City in Tanzania

Country: Tanzania
Located in: Kilimanjaro Region
, Moshi Municipal District
Population: 144,739(2002)
Area: 59 km²
Elevation: 830 m
Website: moshimc.go.tz

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Moshi is a municipality and the capital of Kilimanjaro Region in the Northeastern Tanzania. As of 2017, the municipality has an estimated population of 201,150 and a population density of 3,409 persons per km2. In the last official census of 2022, the municipality had a population of 221,733. The municipality is situated on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano that is the highest mountain in Africa. The name Moshi has been reported to refer to the smoke that emanates from the nearby mountain. The municipality covers about 59 square kilometres (23 mi2) and is the smallest municipality in Tanzania by area.

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Capital of: Kilimanjaro Region
Official name: Moshi

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19 identifiers linking Moshi across the web's reference databases

-3.3349, 37.3404OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDB. (2026). Moshi (Q271733). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/moshi-Q271733