Zanzibar
Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. It is located in the Indian Ocean, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
- Type: Region with 1,500,000 residents
- Description: semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
- Also known as: “Zanzibar Islands”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koani and Mwera.
Koani
Village
Koani is a city located on the Tanzanian island of Unguja. The city serves as capital of the Zanzibar Central/South region. Koani is situated 6 km northwest of Zanzibar.
Mwera
Town
Mwera is a village in Zanzibar east of Zanzibar City on the road to the western coast of the island. Mwera was the location of many Arab-owned clove and coconut plantations throughout the 19th century. Mwera is situated 9 km west of Zanzibar.
Zanzibar
- Categories: federated state and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Zanzibar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zanzibar”
- Albanian: “Zanzibari”
- Amharic: “ዛንዚባር”
- Angika: “जांजीबार”
- Arabic: “زنجبار”
- Arabic: “زنزيبار”
- Armenian: “Զանզիբար”
- Asturian: “Zanzíbar”
- Azerbaijani: “Zənzibar”
- Balinese: “Zanzibar”
- Bashkir: “Занзибар”
- Basque: “Zanzibar”
- Belarusian: “Занзібар”
- Belarusian: “Занзыбар”
- Bengali: “জাঞ্জিবার”
- Bosnian: “Zanzibar”
- Breton: “Zanzibar”
- Bulgarian: “Занзибар”
- Burmese: “ဇန်ဇိဗာကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Zanzíbar”
- Central Kurdish: “زەنگبار”
- Chinese: “Zanzibar”
- Chinese: “桑給巴爾”
- Chinese: “桑给巴尔”
- Croatian: “Zanzibar”
- Czech: “Zanzibar”
- Danish: “Zanzibar”
- Dutch: “Unguja”
- Dutch: “Zanzibar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زنجبار”
- Esperanto: “Insularo de Zanzibaro”
- Esperanto: “Zanzibaro”
- Estonian: “Sansibar”
- Faroese: “Sansibar”
- Finnish: “Sansibar”
- French: “Zanzibar”
- Fulah: “𞤔𞤢𞤲𞤶𞤭𞤦𞤢𞥄𞤪”
- Gagauz: “Zanzibar”
- Galician: “Zanzíbar”
- Georgian: “ზანზიბარი”
- German: “Sansibar”
- Greek: “Ζανζιβάρη”
- Gujarati: “ઝાંઝીબાર”
- Hausa: “Zanzibar”
- Hebrew: “זנזיבר”
- Hindi: “जंजीबार”
- Hindi: “ज़ांज़ीबार”
- Hungarian: “Zanzibár”
- Icelandic: “Sansibar”
- Ido: “Zanzibar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Zanzibar”
- Indonesian: “Zanzibar”
- Interlingue: “Zanzibar”
- Italian: “Zanzibar”
- Japanese: “ザンジバル”
- Javanese: “Zanzibar”
- Kalaallisut: “Zanzibar”
- Kannada: “ಜಾಂಜಿಬಾರ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Zengibar”
- Kazakh: “Занзибар”
- Kinyarwanda: “Zanzibar”
- Kirghiz: “Занзибар”
- Korean: “잔지바르”
- Kurdish: “Zanzîbar”
- Latin: “Zanzibar”
- Latvian: “Zanzibāra”
- Lithuanian: “Zanzibaras”
- Macedonian: “Занзибар”
- Malay: “Zanzibar”
- Maori: “Zanzibar”
- Marathi: “झांझिबार”
- Mazanderani: “زنگبار”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zanzibar”
- Nepali: “जान्जिबार”
- Northern Frisian: “Sansibar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanzibar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zanzibar”
- Norwegian: “Zanzibar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zanzibar (Tanzania)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Menuþias”
- Ossetian: “Занзибар”
- Panjabi: “ਜੰਜੀਬਾਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਜਾਂਜੀਬਾਰ”
- Papiamento: “Zanzibar”
- Persian: “زنگبار”
- Polish: “Zanzibar”
- Portuguese: “Zanzibar”
- Pushto: “زنجبار”
- Romanian: “Zanzibar”
- Russian: “Занзибар”
- Russian: “Народная Республика Занзибар”
- Scots: “Zanzibar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Zanzibar”
- Serbian: “Zanzibar”
- Serbian: “Занзибар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zanzibar”
- Shona: “Zanzibhari”
- Sindhi: “زنجبار”
- Sinhala: “සන්සිබාර්”
- Slovak: “Zanzibar”
- Slovenian: “Zanzibar”
- Somali: “Sinjibaar”
- Spanish: “Zanzibar”
- Spanish: “Zanzíbar”
- Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Watu wa Zanzibar”
- Swahili: “Zanzibar”
- Swedish: “Zanzibar”
- Tagalog: “Zanzibar”
- Tajik: “Занзибар”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Мардумии Занзибар”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Халқии Занзибар”
- Talysh: “Zənzibar”
- Tamil: “சன்சிபார்”
- Tamil: “சன்னஜிப்பர்”
- Tamil: “சான்சிபார்”
- Tatar: “Занзибар”
- Telugu: “జాంజీబార్”
- Thai: “แซนซิบาร์”
- Turkish: “Zangibar”
- Turkish: “Zanzibar”
- Turkish: “Zengibar”
- Tyap: “Za̱nziba”
- Ukrainian: “Занзібар”
- Urdu: “زنجبار”
- Uzbek: “Zanjibar”
- Venetian: “Zanzibar”
- Vietnamese: “Zanzibar”
- Võro: “Sansibar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zanzibar”
- Welsh: “Sansibar”
- Western Frisian: “Sansibar”
- Western Panjabi: “زنجبار”
- Wu Chinese: “桑给巴尔”
- Yoruba: “Zanzibar”
- Yue Chinese: “桑給巴爾”
- Zulu: “Zanzibar”
- “Sansibar”
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