Tumabatu Island is an island located in
Kaskazini A District of
Lindi Region
Lindi Region (''Mkoa wa Lindi'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Sri Lanka. The regional capital is the m ...
in
Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. In Tanzania, East Africa's
Zanzibar Archipelago, Tumbatu is the third-largest island. The wedge-shaped Tumbatu island is only 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide and 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) long (the widest part is in the southern end).
Unguja is a little bit isolated from the rest of Zanzibar despite having a southern side that is only 2 km (1.2 miles) long and surrounded by a reef from Mkokotoni on the island. Tumbati has two islets, Popo Island to the east and Mwana wa Mwana Island to the north. The island has an average elevation of . The Island is the native home of a sub cultural group of the
Hadimu known as Tumbatu.
References
Islands of Tanzania
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