Kilosa (Kilossa) is a town in the

Morogoro Region Morogoro Region (''Mkoa wa Morogoro'' in Swahili language, Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative Regions of Tanzania, regions. It covers an area of . and is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Ireland. M ...

Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...

, East Africa. It is the administrative seat for

Kilosa District Kilosa District is one of the six Districts of Tanzania, districts of the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. Its administrative seat is the town of Kilosa. Kilosa District covers . It is bordered to the north by the Manyara Region, to the northeast b ...

. , the population of the town was 43,418.

Transport

Kilosa is a station on Tanzania's east–west Central Line railway, and the junction where the Mikumi line branches to the south. The new Standard Gauge Railway which will replace the Central Line is approaching completion (early 2023) and there is a new Kilosa Station.

History

The Battle of Kilosa was fought during the East African Campaign in

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

Religious

In Kilosa there was many tribes found such as the following 1-Sagara 2-Zigua 3-Sukuma 4-Nyamwezi 5-Gogo 6-vidunda And other like Foreigner from other regions like Chaga, Hehe, Sambaa, And Zaramo

Notes

Populated places in Morogoro Region {{Morogoro-geo-stub