Morogoro

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Morogoro is a city in Tanzania. It lies about 200 kilometers west of Dar es Salaam and is the district capital of the administrative region of Morogoro. Morogoro is one of the ten largest cities in the country and had in 2002, according to a census 209 058 inhabitants, which now strongly rising trend.

In the south of the city, the Uluguru Mountains rise.

The city is a national center for the agricultural processing industry and has a relatively good school and education system. In addition, located in the city of the Sokoine University of Agriculture initially founded in 1965 as a college. Furthermore, there are since 2004 a religious university, the Muslim University of Morogoro. The city has several small hospitals. The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar -es- Salaam has a fairly modern major outpost here.

Morogoro lies at the Tanganjikabahn linking Dar es Salaam with the hinterland and towns like Dodoma, Tabora or Kigoma.

As of 1965, the African National Congress ( ANC) his headquarters, the fully functional worked from 1966 to moved to this city. First, here was the central command of its military organization MK, whose two main commands resided for the western and eastern fronts later in Maputo and Lusaka.

In the surroundings of the town existed from 1978 to 1992, the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College of South Africa's African National Congress. That was an exile - educational institution during the period of apartheid in South Africa, which was created with support from Julius Nyerere. His staff consisted of an international group.

The phone numbers in place are four digits. Thus, there are less than 10,000 telephone connections for 118,000 inhabitants.