Tanzania

Tanzania

republic, sovereign state, country

Part of	East Africa
Year dem found am	26 April 1964
Official name	République unie de Tanzanie
Native label	Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania
Short name	🇹🇿
Ethnic group	Bantu people
Participant insyd	Uganda–Tanzania War
Dem name after	Tanganyika, Zanzibar Islands
Official language	Swahili, English
Anthem	Mungu ibariki Afrika
Culture	culture of Tanzania
Motto	Freedom and Unity
Continent	Africa
Country	Tanzania
Capital	Dodoma
Located in time zone	UTC+03:00, East Africa Time, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Coordinate location	6°18′25″S 34°51′14″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	7°38′23″S 39°54′28″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	0°59′8″S 30°46′7″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	11°45′39″S 36°31′12″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	6°14′13″S 29°43′22″E
Highest point	Mount Kibo
Lowest point	Indian Ocean
Office held by head of state	President of Tanzania
State ein head	Samia Hassan Suluhu
Office head of government hold	President of Tanzania
Government ein head	Samia Hassan Suluhu
Executive body	Cabinet of Tanzania
Legislative body	National Assembly
Central bank	Bank of Tanzania
Currency	Tanzanian shilling
Driving side	left
Electrical plug type	AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types, BS 1363
Dey replace	Tanganyika, People's Republic of Zanzibar
Dema official website	https://www.tanzania.go.tz/
Hashtag	Tanzania
Top-level Internet domain	.tz
Flag	flag of Tanzania
Coat of arms	coat of arms of Tanzania
Geography of topic	geography of Tanzania
Get characteristic	partly free country
History of topic	history of Tanzania
Open data portal	Tanzania data portal
Economy of topic	economy of Tanzania
Demographics of topic	demographics of Tanzania
Mobile country code	640
Country calling code	+255
Emergency phone number	112, 114, 115
GS1 country code	620
Licence plate code	EAT
Maritime identification digits	674, 677
Unicode character	🇹🇿
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Tanzania

Tanzania, officially de United Republic of Tanzania, be country insyd East Africa within de African Great Lakes region. Ebe bordered by Uganda to de northwest; Kenya to de northeast; de Indian Ocean to de east; Mozambique den Malawi to de south; Zambia to de southwest; den Rwanda, Burundi, den de Democratic Republic of the Congo to de west. According to de 2022 national census, Tanzania get a population of around 62 million, wey dey make am de most populous country wey dey locate entirely south of de equator.

Etymology

Na dem create de name Tanzania as a clipped compound of de names of de two states wey dem unify make dem create de country: Tanganyika den Zanzibar. Edey consist of de first three letters of de names of de two states ("Tan" den "Zan") den de suffix "-ia."

Dem derive de name Tanganyika from de Swahili words tanga "sail" den nyika "uninhabited plain, wilderness", wey dey create de phrase "sail in the wilderness". Dem sam times dey understand am as a reference to Lake Tanganyika.

De name of Zanzibar dey derive from Zanj, de name of a local people (said to mean "black"), den Arabic barr "coast" anaa "shore."

Demographics

Largest cities anaa towns insyd Tanzania 2012 Census General Report, March 2013 Combined Final for Printing
Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
1	Dar es Salaam	Dar es Salaam	4,364,541
2	Mwanza	Mwanza	706,543
3	Arusha	Arusha	416,442
4	Dodoma	Dodoma	410,956
5	Mbeya	Mbeya	385,279
6	Morogoro	Morogoro	315,866
7	Tanga	Tanga	273,332
8	Kahama	Shinyanga	242,208
9	Tabora	Tabora	226,999
10	Zanzibar City	Zanzibar West	223,033

Sources

• Dis article dey incorporate text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY-SA IGO. 3.0. Text taken from UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030​, UNESCO.

External links

• Official website
• Wikimedia Atlas of Tanzania
• Geographic data related to Tanzania at OpenStreetMap
• Basic Statistics of Tanzania published as Open data by the National Bureau of Statistics (archived 15 July 2019)