Kigoma (Tanzania)
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| Coordinates | 4 ° 53 ′ S , 29 ° 39 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Tanzania | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | TZ-08 | ||
| height | 773 m | ||
| Residents | 215,458 (2012) | ||
 The main street of Kigoma
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Kigoma is the capital of the region of the same name in the far west of Tanzania and a port city on Lake Tanganyika .
The city is 773 m above sea level and had about 215,000 inhabitants at the 2012 census. Here is the seat of a Catholic bishop ( Diocese of Kigoma ).
Kigoma forms the final stop of the former Tanganyika Railway (now Central Line ), which runs from Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean via the Tanzanian capital Dodoma to Lake Tanganyika. You can take the train from Kigoma to the Tanzanian capital Dodoma on the Central Line via Tabora, and a connection to Mwanza on Lake Victoria branches off in Tabora .
history
The German Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to visit German East Africa in the summer of 1914, for which a hunting lodge was available. The trip did not take place in view of the looming First World War . Today the building is used by the Tanzania police.
The railway, the port, the shipyard and the most important public buildings in Kigoma were built shortly before 1914, at the end of the German colonial era. The most important ferry on Lake Tanganyika, the MS Liemba, is also of German origin . It was built in 1913 by the North German Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, dismantled into individual parts and reassembled in Kigoma, where it was launched in 1915 under the name Goetzen and was used as a troop transport for the German protection force . In July 1916, the Germans sank their ship so as not to leave it to the advancing Belgians and British . Under British administration, the ship was lifted again, christened MS Liemba on May 16, 1927 and put back into service.
The Kigoma train station
The hunting lodge of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Kigoma.
Lake Tanganyika near Kigoma
Population development
The following overview shows the number of inhabitants by area since the 1978 census.
| year | population |
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| 1978 (census) | 50,075 |
| 1988 (census) | 74,224 |
| 2002 (census) | 131,792 |
| 2012 (census) | 215,458 |
Kigoma Harbor
In Port Kigoma ( English Port of Kigoma ) is approved by the State Port Authority ( Tanzania Ports Authority ) of the ferry and the passenger area as well as by the private company Muapi Ltd. operated the commercial freight sector. At the anchorages in the roadstead, the usable draft is 10 meters, at the quays only 4 meters. In addition to the open landing areas, there is a small separate harbor basin with a narrow entrance, which is used for ship maintenance by means of a slipway if necessary. The entire port area uses a natural round bay on which the city of Kigoma is located. With the existing technology, general cargo and containers can be loaded in the port . There is a refueling dock for tankers. Liquid containers run between the DRC and the port of Bujumbura in Burundi . Two cranes are available for loading and unloading the ships as well as a mobile gantry crane with a payload of up to 35 tons. Port logistics technology is largely out of date. There are free and covered storage capacities in the port. The traffic of goods with the port of Kalémie in the DRC mainly comprises cement , building materials , flour , salt , sugar and fuel . The port area ( 4 ° 52 ′ 37 ″ S , 29 ° 37 ′ 36 ″ E ) is both an international border crossing and a customs clearance point .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tanzania: Regions and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Cameron Birge, Jessica Cochran, Karla Koopmann: Logistics Capacity Assessment: 2.1.5 United Republic of Tanzania Port of Kigoma ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . at www.dlca.logcluster.org (English)
