1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Tanzania
Compare this sourced profile of Dodoma, Tanzania before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dodoma—765,179, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city and capital of Tanzania.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dodoma is GeoNames ID 160196. Its recorded administrative path is Dodoma Urban District → Dodoma → Tanzania, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Dodoma occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-12-02; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Dodoma ranks 721 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Tanzania entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 149. Its 765,179 population value is 1.04 times the 737,494 median for the country cohort and 0.85 times the 902,588 regional median. Dodoma is rank 3 among the 6 selected Tanzania entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Dodoma's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dodoma's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Arusha at 329.024 km with 617,631 recorded people; Zanzibar City at 382.337 km with 709,809 recorded people; Mbeya at 394.567 km with 541,603 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 65.543 km. Compared with Arusha, Dodoma's recorded population is 1.24 times as large. Against Dodoma, Arusha follows Arusha City → Arusha → Tanzania in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Tanzania cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dar_es_Salaam identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dodoma's. Against Dodoma, Zanzibar City follows Mjini → Zanzibar Urban/West → Tanzania in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Tanzania cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dar_es_Salaam identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dodoma's. Against Dodoma, Mbeya follows Mbeya City → Mbeya → Tanzania in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Tanzania cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dar_es_Salaam identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dodoma's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,128 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dodoma's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 160196, the coordinate pair 6.1722 / 35.7395, country rank 3 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 161325 at 329.024 km bind Dodoma to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dodoma's reference point is 6.1722° south and 35.7395° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Dar_es_Salaam is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Dodoma's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Dodoma's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dodoma's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dodoma, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Dodoma's closest other entries in this atlas are Arusha (329.024 km), Zanzibar City (382.337 km), Mbeya (394.567 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-02; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.