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Mbeya

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Mbeya is a city located in southwest Tanzania, Africa. [1]

72 relations: Abbott's duiker, Association football, Atheris nitschei rungweensis, Auric Air, Bamboo, Bank of Tanzania, Black-and-white colobus, Botany, Bracken, Bushland, Calluna, Christopher Mwashinga, Czech Republic, Dar es Salaam, Districts of Tanzania, East Africa Time, Fadhy Mtanga, Fastjet, Free market, Fynbos, Gold mining, Heath, Hiking, Igawilo, Köppen climate classification, Kipunji, Kitulo National Park, Lake Malawi, Loleza Mountain, Lusaka, Malawi, Map, Mbeya District, Mbeya Region, Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Mbozi meteorite, Monkey, Montane ecosystems, Moravian Church, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru (Tanzania), Mount Rungwe, Mzumbe University, Oceanic climate, Orchidaceae, PepsiCo, Poroto Mountains, Port of Dar es Salaam, Prisons F.C., Regions of Tanzania, ..., Rift valley, Ruaha National Park, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Sokoine Stadium, Songwe Airport, Swahili language, Tanzania, Tanzanian Premier League, TAZARA Railway, Teofilo Kisanji University, The Coca-Cola Company, Tifariti, Trout, Tukuyu, United States, Upland and lowland, Volcanic crater, Western Cape, Zambia. Expand index (22 more) »

Abbott's duiker

The Abbott's duiker (Cephalophus spadix), also known as minde in Swahili, is a large, forest-dwelling duiker (small antelope) found only in a few scattered enclaves in Tanzania.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atheris nitschei rungweensis

Atheris nitschei rungweensis is a venomous viper subspecies endemic to Africa in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi.

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Auric Air

Auric Air Services Ltd is a small privately owned airline based in Mwanza, Tanzania, offering both scheduled and non-scheduled air charter services.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bank of Tanzania

The Bank of Tanzania (Benki Kuu ya mTanzania) is the central bank of the United Republic of Tanzania.

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Black-and-white colobus

Black-and-white colobuses (or colobi) are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus, native to Africa.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bracken

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae.

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Bushland

Bushland is a blanket term for land which supports remnant vegetation or land which is disturbed but still retains a predominance of the original floristics and structure.

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Calluna

Calluna vulgaris (known as common heather, ling, or simply heather) is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.

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Christopher Mwashinga

Christopher R. Mwashinga, Jr (born 9 January 1965) is a Tanzanian author and poet from Mbeya, Tanzania who lives in the United States.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam (Dar) (from دار السلام, "the house of peace"; formerly Mzizima) is the former capital as well as the most populous city in Tanzania and a regionally important economic centre.

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Districts of Tanzania

As of the 2012 census, the 30 regions of Tanzania were divided into 169 districts (Swahili: wilaya).

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East Africa Time

East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa.

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Fadhy Mtanga

Fadhili Frank Mtanga (born 14 November 1981) popularly known by his pen name Fadhy Mtanga is a Tanzanian creative writer, blogger, photographer, graphic designer and social worker.

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Fastjet

Fastjet Plc is a British/South African-based holding company for a group of low-cost carriers that operate in Africa.

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Free market

In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

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Fynbos

Fynbos (meaning fine-leaved plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the resource extraction of gold by mining.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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Igawilo

Igawilo is an administrative ward in the Mbeya Urban district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kipunji

The kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji), also known as the highland mangabey, is a species of Old World monkey that lives in the highland forests of Tanzania.

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Kitulo National Park

Kitulo National Park is a protected area of montane grassland on the Kitulo Plateau in the southern highlands of Tanzania.

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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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Loleza Mountain

Loleza Peak is a mountain in Mbeya Region, Tanzania, East Africa.

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Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Map

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.

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Mbeya District

Mbeya Urban is a district of Mbeya Region, Tanzania and comprises the area of Mbeya town.

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Mbeya Region

Mbeya Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Mbeya University of Science and Technology

Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST) is a public university in southern Tanzania located in Mbeya City.

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Mbozi meteorite

Mbozi is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Tanzania.

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Monkey

Monkeys are non-hominoid simians, generally possessing tails and consisting of about 260 known living species.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, formally named the Unitas Fratrum (Latin for "Unity of the Brethren"), in German known as Brüdergemeine (meaning "Brethren's Congregation from Herrnhut", the place of the Church's renewal in the 18th century), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in the world with its heritage dating back to the Bohemian Reformation in the fifteenth century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) established in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira", is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.

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Mount Meru (Tanzania)

Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located west of Mount Kilimanjaro in the country of Tanzania.

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Mount Rungwe

Mount Rungwe is a potentially active volcano in the Mbeya Region of the southern highlands of Tanzania.

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Mzumbe University

Mzumbe University (MU) is a public university in Morogoro, Tanzania.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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Poroto Mountains

The Poroto Mountains are a mountain range in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

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Port of Dar es Salaam

The Port of Dar es Salaam is the principal port serving Tanzania.

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Prisons F.C.

Prisons FC is a Tanzanian football club owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service based in Mbeya.

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Regions of Tanzania

Tanzania is divided into thirty-one regions or mikoa.

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Rift valley

A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault.

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Ruaha National Park

Ruaha National Park is the largest national park in Tanzania.

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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

The Sahrawi Republic, officially the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR; also romanized with Saharawi; República Árabe Saharaui Democrática; الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية), is a partially recognized state that controls a thin strip of area in the Western Sahara region and claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony and later province.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Sokoine Stadium

Sokoine Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mbeya, Tanzania, owned by the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) political party.

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Songwe Airport

Songwe Airport, usually referred to in flight schedules as Mbeya (using the "MBI" IATA code from the unpaved Mbeya Airport), is an airport in the southern highland region of Tanzania, serving the city of Mbeya and the surrounding Mbeya Region.

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Swahili language

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tanzanian Premier League

The Tanzania Mainland Premier League ("Ligi Kuu Tanzania Bara" in Swahili) is the top-level professional football league in Tanzania and is administered by the Tanzania Football Federation.

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TAZARA Railway

The TAZARA Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, is a railway in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania with the town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia's Central Province.

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Teofilo Kisanji University

Teofilo Kisanji University (TEKU) is a private university in Mbeya, Tanzania.

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The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is an American corporation, and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups.

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Tifariti

Tifariti (Berber: Tifariti, تيفاريتي) is an oasis town located in north-eastern Western Sahara, east of the Moroccan Berm, from Smara and north of the Mauritanian border.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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Tukuyu

Tukuyu, known as Neu Langenburg during the German colonial rule, is a small hillside town that lies about south of the city of Mbeya, at an elevation of around in the highland Rungwe District of southern Tanzania, East Africa.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Upland and lowland

Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is a roughly circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Western Cape

The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap, Ntshona Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbeya

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