Tanzania Health Facilities: Geospatial Data with Swahili Names and Capacity

Tanzania geospatial health facility data from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. This export captures points and polygons tagged as hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, including metadata for operator types and facility capacities.

Use Cases

• Mapping medical service density by filtering the 'amenity' column for clinics and hospitals
• Identifying healthcare gaps using 'addr:city' and 'addr:full' to locate underserved neighborhoods
• Analyzing the balance of public vs. private care using the 'operator:type' field

Strengths

• Includes localized 'name:sw' (Swahili) and 'name:en' (English) labels for facilities.
• Supports specialized queries via the 'healthcare:speciality' attribute.
• Available in SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and KML formats

Limitations

• Inconsistent population of the 'capacity:persons' field
• Crowdsourced nature may lead to temporal lag in facility status updates

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial mapping

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Tanzania