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Zanzibar City

city in Tanzania
City city Q2222874

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
city, big city, administrative territorial entity[6][7]
Native label
Zanzibar[23]
Official name
Zanzibar[22]

Location

Country
Tanzania, Sultanate of Zanzibar[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -6.167°, 39.200°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Mjini Magharibi Region, Sultanate of Zanzibar, Mjini District[3][4]
Located in/on physical feature
Unguja[9]

Population and size

Population
404k (68k–710k, n=7)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
More facts +6
Capital of
Mjini Magharibi Region, Zanzibar Islands, People's Republic of Zanzibar, Sultanate of Zanzibar, Sultanate of Zanzibar[18][19][20][21]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17]
Different from
Zanzibar[24]
History of topic
timeline of Zanzibar City history[25]
Member of
Organization of World Heritage Cities[2]
Twinned administrative body
Haikou[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zanzibar City en Zanzibar en Zanzibar Town ar مدينة زنجبار ar زنزيبار da Zanzibar by de Zanzibar-Stadt de Sansibar-Stadt de Sansibar Stadt de Zanzibar City el Πόλη της Ζανζιβάρης es Zanzibar es Zanzíbar fa شهرستان زنگبار fi Sansibar fi Zanzibar City fr Zanzibar city fr Mji Mkongwe fr Zanzibar City he זנזיבר סיטי
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
24144648190506101862
GND ID
4445980-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Stone Town, Zanzibar (1).jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15079242z
Freebase ID
/m/047vq3s
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2574823
GeoNames ID
148730
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Zanzibar_by
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1987518, 5851716
IdRef ID
128518588
Instagram location ID
228285831
Museum-digital place ID
20464
Show all 22 identifiers +10
MusicBrainz area ID
665dd649-a353-4e58-8c2d-edb0da0c7164
NL CR AUT ID
ge160053
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4000261
OpenStreetMap node ID
3320526612
SNARC ID
12 Angry Men
Topic's main category
Category:Zanzibar City
UN/LOCODE
TZZNZ
Who's on First ID
421170425
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
12908931
Yale LUX ID
place/1971ef65-1d97-4885-b626-c8ae204d01c8

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 6
Tippu Tip, Abeid Karume, Majid bin Said Al Busaidi, Bi Kidude, Khalifa bin Harub Al Busaidi, Idris Abdul Wakil
People born here 5
Freddie Mercury, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Majid bin Said Al Busaidi, Emily Ruete, Khamis Mcha Khamis
Capital of 4
Zanzibar Islands, Sultanate of Zanzibar, Mjini Magharibi Region, People's Republic of Zanzibar
Contained subdivisions 4
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Zanzibar, Forodhani Gardens, State University of Zanzibar, Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University
← Capital 4
Zanzibar Islands, Sultanate of Zanzibar, Mjini Magharibi Region, People's Republic of Zanzibar
Instance of 3
city, administrative territorial entity, big city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Sultanate of Zanzibar, Mjini Magharibi Region, Mjini District
← Headquarters location 3
Afro-Shirazi Party, Zanzibar Football Association, Civic United Front
Country 2
Tanzania, Sultanate of Zanzibar
Located in this place 2
1976 CECAFA Cup, 1990 CECAFA Cup
← Place of publication 2
al-Falaq, al-Najāḥ
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
Zanzibar
Has these parts 1
Stone Town
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Unguja
Member of 1
Organization of World Heritage Cities
SNARC ID 1
12 Angry Men
Topic's main category 1
Category:Zanzibar City
Twinned administrative body 1
Haikou
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Zanzibar City
← Different from 1
Zanzibar
← Place served by transport hub 1
Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
← Twinned administrative body 1
Haikou
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Summary

Zanzibar City is a city[1].

Related Entities

12 Angry Men Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University Abdulrazak Gurnah city Freddie Mercury Tanzania Tippu Tip Unguja

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . enfaohn.hainan.gov.cn. enfaohn.hainan.gov.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . ovpm.org. Retrieved . ovpm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Great dictionary of geographical names. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978). wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Great Russian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . old.bigenc.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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