Lushoto

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Lushoto is a town in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. It is the capital of Lushoto District, Tanga Region. The 2012 national census estimated the population of Lushoto ward at 28,190.{{cite web|title=Census 2012|url=http://50.87.153.5/~eastc/sensa/index.php/welcome|website=National Bureau of Statistics|accessdate=9 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305154228/http://50.87.153.5/~eastc/sensa/index.php/welcome|archive-date=5 March 2016}}

The Irente School for the Blind Girls is located in Lushoto, built by the Lutheran Church in 1963.{{Cite web |url=http://www.isec2000.org.uk/abstracts/papers_o/ojile_1.htm |title=Ojile - Echoing the Voices of the Marginalised/or Excluded in Developing African Countries - ISEC 2000 |access-date=2007-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217100808/http://www.isec2000.org.uk/abstracts/papers_o/ojile_1.htm |archive-date=2007-12-17 |url-status=dead }}