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Pemba Island
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Key facts
- Location
- Indian Ocean
- Area
- 988 km (381 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 119 m (390 ft)
- Highest point
- Masingini Ridge
- Region
- Zanzibar
- Capital city
- Chake Chake
- Largest settlement
- Wete
- Population
- 543,441 (Census 2022)
- Pop density
- 550/km (1420/sq mi)
- Official website
- Country website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Zanzibar Archipelago
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Zanzibar Islands
- Capital
- Chake-Chake
- Population
- 406808
- Area
- 890
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Indian Ocean
- Image
- Pemba island, Tanzania. View from Chake Chake town center over the mangroves towards the sea.JPG
- Width
- 22
- Length
- 67
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- Commons category
- Pemba Island
- topic's main category
- Category:Pemba Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Zanzibar Archipelago
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Pemba Island (Arabic: الجزيرة الخضراء, al-Jazīra al-khadrāʔ; Swahili: Kisiwa cha Pemba) is a Tanzanian island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, lying within the Swahili Coast in the Indian Ocean.
Geography
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