Ukerewe is the fifth-largest lake island in the world. With an area of 530 km2 (200 sq mi), it is also the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest...
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Ukerewe may refer to: Ukerewe Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Ukerewe District, Tanzania Ukerewe District, a district in Mwanza Region, Tanzania...
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Ukerewe District is one of the seven districts of the Mwanza Region of Tanzania. It is located on Ukerewe Island, Ukara Island and other neighbouring...
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Lake Victoria (redirect from Lake Ukerewe)
species to extinction. Though having multiple local language names (Swahili: Ukerewe; Dholuo: Nam Lolwe; Luganda: 'Nnalubaale; Kinyarwanda: Nyanza), the lake...
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primarily in Kwimba, Buchosa, and Ukerewe. Rice is the third most common crop, predominantly grown in Magu and Ukerewe. In the entire region, cotton is...
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Marine Services Company Limited (redirect from MT Ukerewe)
Songea 1974 1994 10 212 40 Nyasa MV Umoja 1964 – 11 – 1,200 Victoria MT Ukerewe 1938 1972 – – 740 Victoria MV Victoria 1960 1989 12.5 1,200 200 Victoria...
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capsized on 20 September 2018 while travelling between the islands of Ukerewe and Ukara on Lake Victoria. The Tanzanian government have declared that...
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Lake Victoria (known to locals as Nam Lolwe in Dholuo and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in Luganda). Speke is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis...
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Commission from 2003 to 2008. Mongella was born in 1945 on Ukerewe Island in modern day Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region. In 1970, Mongella graduated from...
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Nyashiboha. Nyerere was educated at the White Sisters' School at Nyegina and Ukerewe School. She was a boarding scholar at Sumve Teacher Training College in...
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Áakʾùumʾé, Kʾáwáigamʾé) Kerewe Niger–Congo → Bantu → Kerewe Tanzania (Ukerewe Island) Kerincian Austronesian → Kerincian Indonesia (Kerincia) Sunni Islam...
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Lake Victoria. Part of Tanzania, it is located 10 km north of Ukerewe Island, in the Ukerewe District, Mwanza Region. It is also known as Bukara. The island...
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which one particular form of albinism is unusually common (OCA 4); and Ukerewe Island, the population of which shows a very high incidence of albinism...
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island in Lake Victoria, after Tanzania's Ukerewe Island, and the third largest lake island in Africa, after Ukerewe and Democratic Republic of the Congo's...
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(280 sq mi) Isle Royale in Lake Superior, United States – 541 km2 (209 sq mi) Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania – 530 km2 (200 sq mi) St. Joseph Island...
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535 48°0′0″N 88°55′0″W / 48.00000°N 88.91667°W / 48.00000; -88.91667 Ukerewe Island Lake Victoria Tanzania 530 2°1′46″S 33°0′36″E / 2.02944°S 33.01000°E...
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Kara, or Regi, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken off Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects. Kara at Ethnologue...
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on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria/Nyanza and on the island of Ukerewe. Guthrie (1967) classifies Jita in Bantu Zone E, Group 20 because, like...
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Tanzanian port town and capital of Ukerewe District in Mwanza Region. The town is also a ward on the island of Ukerewe, Lake Victoria, in Tanzanian lake...
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2020) was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar. Born in Ukerewe, Tanganyika (now in Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region in Tanzania), he last worked at...
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Comore) 102 Pingtan (Haitan) 357,760 (2010 census) China (Fujian) 103 Ukerewe 345,147 (2012 census) Tanzania (Mwanza) 104 Flevopolder 344,521 (2018...
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Kerewe (locally: Wakerewe) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group based on Ukerewe Island in the Tanzanian section of Lake Victoria. They speak the Kerewe...
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the arid areas. The largest lakes are the following: Lake Victoria (Lake Ukerewe), Lake Chad, in the centre of the continent, Lake Tanganyika, lying between...
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cleric and novelist, born in 1896 on the island of Ukerewe, in Lake Victoria, in modern day Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region in Tanzania. In 1945, he...
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Suakin Archipelago National Park Mafia Island Nabuyongo Island Pemba Island Ukerewe Island Zanzibar Djerba (Jerba) Galite Islands Kerkennah Islands Chergui...
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Region Kisarawe District Bantu Kara Mwanza Region Ukerewe District Bantu Kerewe Mwanza Region Ukerewe District Bantu Kimbu Mbeya Region Chunya District...
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families, believing that they may be killed by even their closest relatives. Ukerewe Island is a key example of this, home to a large community of people with...
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carrying "close to 270 passengers", capsized on Lake Victoria between Ukerewe Island and Ukara Island, Tanzania, 50 metres (55 yd) from the pier on Ukara...
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almost all of the population is dependent on subsistence agriculture. Ukerewe Island in neighbouring Lake Victoria is considerably bigger than Idjwi...
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Rwanda Ngoma, Uganda, a municipality in Nakaseke District Ngoma, Ukerewe, a ward in Ukerewe District, Tanzania Ngoma, Zambia, headquarters of Kafue National...
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