Tanzania Country Info - Africa

Description and Basic Information

Tanzania with its capital Dar es Salaam is located in Africa (Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean). It covers some 945,088 square kilometres (slightly larger than twice the size of California) with 40,213,000 citizens. Swahili (generic), English and Arabic are the languages commonly used by the people in Tanzania (consider regional differences). Mozambique, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Uganda and Malawi are bordering countries.

Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa, bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. Tanzania is a country with great national parks, where you can see some of the finest African flora and fauna. Tanzania is home to several national parks and game reserves. Safaris in Tanzania can be put into two categories, the Northern Circuit (Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Manyara and Tarangire) and the Southern Circuit (Selous, Mikumi and Ruaha). This is certainly an oversimplification and does not include other interesting but harder to reach parks such as Katavi and Gombe, just to name two. For tourist, the two first groupings are more accessible as several tour companies offer a variety a packages for these.

Pictures from Capital (Dar es Salaam)

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About Tanzania

The landscape featuresplains along coast with central plateau and highlands in north, south. The average density of population is about 42 per km². The climate in Tanzania can be described as varying from tropical along coast to temperate in highlands. Potential threats by nature are flooding on the central plateau during the rainy season or drought.

To reach someone in Tanzania dial +255 prior to a number. There are 173,552 installed telephones. And there are 17,677,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".tz". The following list are the 27 regions/states in Tanzania we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Tanzanian population grew at a rate of 2.03% (or by 851,264 citizens). With 515,702 deaths and 1,400,898 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.11%. -33,933 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Tanzania: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.