1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Tanzania
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Mwanza—1,104,521, 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: Lakeside City.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mwanza is GeoNames ID 152224. Its recorded administrative path is Nyamagana District → Mwanza → Tanzania, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mwanza 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 2026-04-14; 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, Mwanza ranks 490 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Tanzania entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 101. Its 1,104,521 population value is 1.50 times the 737,494 median for the country cohort and 1.22 times the 902,588 regional median. Mwanza is rank 2 among the 6 selected Tanzania entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Mwanza's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Mwanza's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kampala at 316.985 km with 1,680,600 recorded people; Kigali at 321.908 km with 1,132,686 recorded people; Nansana at 322.953 km with 532,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.968 km. Compared with Kampala, Mwanza's recorded population is 0.66 times as large. Against Mwanza, Kampala follows Kampala District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uganda cohort rather than Tanzania, uses Africa/Kampala instead of Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mwanza's. Against Mwanza, Kigali follows Nyarugenge District → Kigali → Rwanda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Rwanda cohort rather than Tanzania, uses Africa/Kigali instead of Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Mwanza's. Against Mwanza, Nansana follows Wakiso District → Central Region → Uganda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uganda cohort rather than Tanzania, uses Africa/Kampala instead of Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Mwanza's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,121 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mwanza'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 152224, the coordinate pair 2.5167 / 32.9000, country rank 2 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 232422 at 316.985 km bind Mwanza to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mwanza's reference point is 2.5167° south and 32.9000° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Dar_es_Salaam is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Mwanza's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Mwanza's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mwanza's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mwanza, 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
Mwanza's closest other entries in this atlas are Kampala (316.985 km), Kigali (321.908 km), Nansana (322.953 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.