Bagamoyo

Bagamoyo Mji wa Bagamoyo (Swahili)
Capital of Bagamoyo District
From top to bottom: Old Arab tea house in Bagamoyo, Swahili door in Bagamoyo and street scene in Bagamoyo
Nickname:  Take a load off your heart
Bagamoyo
Coordinates: 6°26′40″S 38°54′10″E / 6.44444°S 38.90278°E / -6.44444; 38.90278
Country	Tanzania
Region	Pwani Region
District	Bagamoyo District
Population  (2011)
• Total	82,578
Ethnic groups
• Settler	Swahili
• Ancestral	Zaramo

Bagamoyo (Mji wa Bagamoyo, in Swahili) is a historic coastal town and capital of Bagamoyo District in the Pwani Region of Tanzania. Much of the settlement was founded at the end of the 18th century, though it is an extension of a much older (8th century) Swahili settlement, Kaole. It was chosen as the capital of German East Africa by the German colonial administration and it became one of the most important trading ports for the Germans along the East African coast along the west of the Indian Ocean in the late 19th and early 20th century. Bagamoyo lies 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Dar-es-Salaam on the coast of the Zanzibar Channel, across from the island of Zanzibar. The town hosts Bagamoyo Historic Town, that is a National Historic Site of Tanzania. In 2011, the town had 82,578 inhabitants.^[1]