BAGAMOYO, seaport, Tanganyika Territory, East Africa, in 6° 27' S., 55' E. Pop. (1921) 5,20o. As the mainland port nearest Zanzibar, 26m. distant, Bagamoyo became the starting point for caravans to the great lakes, and thus an entrepot of trade for the interior of the continent. Of the explorers who began their journeys inland from Bagamoyo the most illustrious were Sir Richard Burton, J. H. Speke, J. A. Grant and Sir H. M. Stanley. Having only an open roadstead it was superseded to a large extent in the last quarter of the 1 gth century by the de velopment of the port of Dar es Salaam, 36m. south. It retained, however, a considerable coastal trade. The .Mission du Sacre Coeur has a large establishment here and the town is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric. Bagamoyo is the centre of an administrative division which had in 1921 a population of 57,00o.