Explore Tanzania in Africa - Tanzania Tourism Info

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.

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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 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 country consists of 27 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Tanzania

Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Tanzania Tourism

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Tanzania has 2 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Tanzania Unesco Heritage location overview.

Kilimanjaro National Park

At 5,895 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa. This volcanic massif stands in splendid isolation above the surrounding plains, with its snowy peak looming over the savannah. The mountain...

Kondoa Rock-Art Sites

On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary rocks fragmented by rift faults, whose vertical planes have...

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with...

Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara

The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the coast. From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in...

Selous Game Reserve

Large numbers of elephants, black rhinoceroses, cheetahs, giraffes, hippopotamuses and crocodiles live in this immense sanctuary, which measures 50,000 km2 and is relatively undisturbed by human...

Demographic Information

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.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Tanzania is growing at an rate of 2.03% (or by 851,264 citizens). Each year 33,933 people leave this country (or 0.80 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 2.11%. Or an total increase of 885,197 citizens.

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.