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Tanzania

Tanzania is the largest country in . From the picture-perfect coasts of to the world-renowned wildlife of the Serengeti, from the snowy slopes of to the coral houses of , Tanzania is the heart and soul of East Africa.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Dar es Salaam and Mount Kilimanjaro.

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was founded in 1862 by Sultan Seyyid Majid of on the site of the village of Mzizima. Mzizima's history dates back to when the Barawa people started to settle and cultivate the area around Mbwa Maji, Magogoni, Mjimwema, Gezaulole, and Kibonde Maji Mbagara.

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is an inactive stratovolcano in Tanzania, near the border with . At 5,895 m above sea level, Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest peak and the world's highest free-standing mountain.

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, officially City, is the capital city of Tanzania. With a population of 765,179, it is also the administrative capital of both and the entire .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northeast Tanzania and Pembwe and the Southeast.

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stretches from the northern border to Kenya to in the south, borders on the Indian Ocean in the east and the west with the area of .

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is the hot humid region of Tanzania including the principal city and most of the country's Indian Ocean coastline.

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is in the plateau region of Tanzania, with grasslands and national parks in its south, and arable land in the north.

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is known as Africa's Great Lakes region, because it is home to Tanzania's portion of Lake Victoria in the north and in the west.

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The is a highland region in southwestern Tanzania, at the northern end of . The highlands include portions of , , , , , and regions, bordering , , and . is the largest city in the highlands.

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is an island off the coast of Tanzania famous for its history, culture, archeological sites, and stunning white sand beaches. Province includes to the north as well as many smaller islands in the archipelago.

Tanzania

Latitude of center
-6° or 6° south
Longitude of center
34.6° or 34° 36′ east
Population
41,000,000
Area
945,087 km² (364,900 miles²)
Elevation
829 metres (2,720 feet)
Capital
Currency
Shilling (TZS)
Phone code
.tz
Internet domain
255
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424314335
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
149590
Wiki­data ID
Q924
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tanzania” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Еиду Ареспублика Танзаниа”
  • Abkhazian: “Танзаниа”
  • Achinese: “Tanzania”
  • Adyghe: “Танзание”
  • Afrikaans: “Tanzanië”
  • Akan: “Tanzania”
  • Albanian: “Tanzani”
  • Albanian: “Tanzania”
  • Amharic: “ታንዛኒያ”
  • Amis: “Tanzania”
  • Angika: “तंजानिया”
  • Arabic: “تانزانيا”
  • Arabic: “تنزانيا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية تنزانيا الاتحادية”
  • Aragonese: “Tanzania”
  • Armenian: “Տանզանիա”
  • Arpitan: “Tanzania”
  • Arpitan: “Tanzanie”
  • Assamese: “ইউনাইটেড ৰিপাব্লিক অৱ টাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Assamese: “টাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Assamese: “তাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Assamese: “সংযুক্ত গণতান্ত্ৰিক টাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Asturian: “República Xunida de Tanzania”
  • Asturian: “Tanzania”
  • Atayal: “Tanzania”
  • Aymara: “Tansanya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanzaniya”
  • Balinese: “Tanzania”
  • Bambara: “Tanzani”
  • Bambara: “Tanzania”
  • Banjar: “Tanzania”
  • Bashkir: “Танзания”
  • Basque: “Tanzania”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Tanzania”
  • Bavarian: “Tansania”
  • Belarusian: “Танзанія”
  • Bengali: “তাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “তানজানিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Tansania”
  • Bhojpuri: “तंजानिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “তাঞ্জানিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Tansania”
  • Bosnian: “Tanzanija”
  • Breton: “Tanzania”
  • Bulgarian: “Танзания”
  • Burmese: “တန်ဇန်နီးယား”
  • Burmese: “တန်ဇန်းနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “တန်ဇန်းနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “တန်ဇေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República Unida de Tanzània”
  • Catalan: “Tanzania”
  • Catalan: “Tanzània”
  • Cebuano: “Tansaniya”
  • Cebuano: “Tanzania”
  • Central Bikol: “Tansaniya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tanzania”
  • Central Kurdish: “تانزانیا”
  • Chavacano: “Tanzania”
  • Chechen: “Танзани”
  • Cheyenne: “Tanzania”
  • Chinese: “Tǎnsāngníyà”
  • Chinese: “Tanzania”
  • Chinese: “坦尚尼亞”
  • Chinese: “坦桑尼亚 / 坦尚尼亞”
  • Chinese: “坦桑尼亚”
  • Chinese: “坦桑尼亞”
  • Chuvash: “Танзани”
  • Cornish: “Tansania”
  • Cornish: “Tanzani”
  • Cornish: “Tanzania”
  • Corsican: “Tanzana”
  • Corsican: “Tanzania”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tanzaniya”
  • Croatian: “Tanzanija”
  • Czech: “Tanzanie”
  • Czech: “Tanzánie”
  • Dagbani: “Tanzania”
  • Danish: “Tanzania”
  • Dhivehi: “ޓެންޒޭނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tanzanya”
  • Dinka: “Tandhania”
  • Dotyali: “तान्जानिया”
  • Dutch: “Tanzania”
  • Dutch: “TZ”
  • Dutch: “TZA”
  • Dutch: “Verenigde Republiek Tanzania”
  • Dzongkha: “ཊཱན་ཛཱ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Танзаний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تانزانيا”
  • Erzya: “Танзания”
  • Esperanto: “Tanzanio”
  • Esperanto: “TZ”
  • Estonian: “Tansaania Ühendvabariik”
  • Estonian: “Tansaania”
  • Estonian: “Tanzania”
  • Ewe: “Tanzania nutome”
  • Ewe: “Tanzania”
  • Extremaduran: “Tanzania”
  • Extremaduran: “Tanzánia”
  • Farefare: “Tanzania”
  • Faroese: “Tansania”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tanzania”
  • Finnish: “Tansania”
  • Finnish: “Tansanian yhdistynyt tasavalta”
  • French: “la république unie de Tanzanie”
  • French: “république unie de Tanzanie”
  • French: “république-unie de Tanzanie”
  • French: “Tanzanie”
  • French: “TZ”
  • Fulah: “Tansanii”
  • Fulah: “Tansaniya”
  • Gagauz: “Tanzaniya”
  • Galician: “República Unida de Tanzania”
  • Galician: “Tanzania”
  • Ganda: “Tanzania”
  • Ganda: “Tanzaniya”
  • Georgian: “ტანზანია”
  • German: “Tansania”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tanzania”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “tz”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “tza”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “United Republic of Tanzania”
  • Gilaki: “تانزانيا”
  • Greek: “Τανζανία”
  • Guarani: “Tãsaña”
  • Guarani: “Tãsáña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tanzani”
  • Gujarati: “ટાન્ઝાનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “તાંઝાનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “તાન્ઝાનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Tanzani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tanzania”
  • Hausa: “Tanzaniya”
  • Hebrew: “טאנזניה”
  • Hebrew: “טנזניה”
  • Hindi: “तंजा़निया”
  • Hindi: “तंज़ानिया”
  • Hindi: “तंस़ानिया”
  • Hungarian: “Tanzánia”
  • Hungarian: “Tanzániai Egyesült Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Tansanía”
  • Ido: “Tanzania”
  • Igbo: “Tanzania”
  • Iloko: “Tanzania”
  • Inari Sami: “Tansania ovtâstum täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Tansania”
  • Indonesian: “Tanzania”
  • Ingush: “Танзани”
  • Interlingua: “Tanzania”
  • Interlingue: “Tanzania”
  • Irish: “an Tansáin”
  • Irish: “An Tansáin”
  • Italian: “Tanzania”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tanzania”
  • Japanese: “タンザニア”
  • Japanese: “タンザニア連合共和国”
  • Javanese: “Tansania”
  • Javanese: “Tanzania”
  • Kabardian: “Танзаниэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Tanzani”
  • Kabyle: “Tanzanya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tanzania”
  • Kalmyk: “Танзнмудин Ниицәтә Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಂಜಾನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಂಜಾನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ತಾಂಜೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tanzaniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Танзания”
  • Kashmiri: “تَنجانِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “टंजानिया”
  • Kashubian: “Tanzaniô”
  • Kazakh: “Танзания”
  • Khmer: “តង់សានី”
  • Khmer: “តង់ហ្សានី”
  • Kikuyu: “Tanzania”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tanzaniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Танзания”
  • Komering: “Tanzania”
  • Kongo: “Tanzania”
  • Korean: “탄자니아”
  • Kotava: “Tanzania”
  • Kurdish: “Tanzanya”
  • Ladin: “Tansania”
  • Ladino: “Tanzania”
  • Lao: “ທານຊາເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Tanzaneja”
  • Latin: “Tanzania”
  • Latvian: “Tanzānija”
  • Lezghian: “Танзания”
  • Ligurian: “Tanzania”
  • Limburgan: “Tanzania”
  • Lingala: “Tanzani”
  • Lingala: “Tanzania”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tanzania”
  • Literary Chinese: “坦桑尼亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Tanzanija”
  • Livvi: “Tanzanii”
  • Lojban: “tanzan”
  • Lojban: “tanzanias”
  • Lombard: “Tanzania”
  • Low German: “Tansania”
  • Low German: “Tanzania”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tansanija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tanzani”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tansania”
  • Macedonian: “Танзанија”
  • Magahi: “तञ्जानिया”
  • Malagasy: “Tanzania”
  • Malay: “Tanzania”
  • Malayalam: “ടാന്‍സാനിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ടാൻസാനിയ”
  • Maltese: “it-Tanzanija”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Magħquda tat-Tanzanija”
  • Maltese: “Tanzanija”
  • Maltese: “Tanżanija”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯥꯟꯓꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Tanzania”
  • Maori: “Tānahia”
  • Marathi: “टांझानिया”
  • Mazanderani: “تانزانیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tanzania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tanzania”
  • Minangkabau: “Tanzania”
  • Mingrelian: “ტანზანია”
  • Mirandese: “Tanzánia”
  • Moksha: “Танзания”
  • Mongolian: “Танзани”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طانزانيا”
  • Nauru: “Tanzania”
  • Navajo: “Beʼekʼid Honeezítsoh Bibąąhgi Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “तन्जानिया”
  • Nepali: “तान्जनिया”
  • Nepali: “तान्जानिया”
  • Newari: “ताञ्जानिया”
  • Newari: “तान्जानिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Tanzaniya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tansania”
  • Northern Sami: “Tansania ovttastuvvan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tansánia ovttastuvvan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tansania”
  • Northern Sami: “Tansánia”
  • Northern Sami: “Tanzania ovttastuvvan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tanzánia ovttastuvvan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tanzania”
  • Northern Sami: “Tanzánia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den forente republikken Tanzania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanzania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanzania”
  • Norwegian: “Tanzania”
  • Novial: “Tanzania”
  • Nyanja: “Tanzania”
  • Obolo: “Tanzania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tanzania”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tansania”
  • Oriya: “ତାଞ୍ଜାନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Tanzaaniyaa”
  • Oromo: “Tanzania”
  • Ossetian: “Танзани”
  • Pali: “टंजानिया”
  • Pampanga: “Tanzania”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਨਜ਼ਾਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Tanzania”
  • Pedi: “Tanzania”
  • Persian: “تانزانیا”
  • Piemontese: “Tanzanìa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tansaania”
  • Polish: “Tanzania”
  • Portuguese: “Republica Unida da Tanzania”
  • Portuguese: “República Unida da Tanzânia”
  • Portuguese: “Tanzania”
  • Portuguese: “Tanzânia”
  • Pushto: “تانزانيا”
  • Pushto: “تانزانيه”
  • Pushto: “تنزانیا”
  • Quechua: “Tansaña”
  • Quechua: “Tansanya”
  • Quechua: “Tanzania”
  • Romanian: “Tanzania”
  • Romansh: “Tansania”
  • Rundi: “Tanzaniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Танзани”
  • Russian: “Объединенная Республика Танзания”
  • Russian: “Объединённая Республика Танзания”
  • Russian: “Танзания”
  • Rusyn: “Танзанія”
  • Sakizaya: “Tanzania”
  • Samoan: “Tanzania”
  • Samogitian: “Tanzanėjė”
  • Sango: “Tanzanïi”
  • Sanskrit: “टंजानिया”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱟᱱᱡᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Tanzània”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tansania”
  • Scots: “Tanzanie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Tansan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tansainia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tansainìa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tanzania”
  • Serbian: “Tanzanija”
  • Serbian: “Танзанија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanzanija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းထၼ်ႇၸၼ်းၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Tanzania”
  • Sicilian: “Tanzania”
  • Silesian: “Tanzańijo”
  • Sindhi: “تنزانيا”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්සානියා”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්සානියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tansania õhttõõvvâm tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tansania”
  • Slovak: “Tanzánia”
  • Slovak: “Tanzánijská zjednotená republika”
  • Slovenian: “Tanzanija”
  • Somali: “Tansaaniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تانزانیا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Tanzania”
  • Spanish: “Republica Unida de Tanzania”
  • Spanish: “República Unida de Tanzania”
  • Spanish: “Tanzania”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵟⴰⵏⵥⴰⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Tanzania”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania”
  • Swahili: “Tanzania, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa”
  • Swahili: “Tanzania”
  • Swahili: “tz”
  • Swahili: “tza”
  • Swati: “IThanzaniya”
  • Swedish: “Förenade republiken Tanzania”
  • Swedish: “Tanzania”
  • Swiss German: “Tansania”
  • Sylheti: “ꠔꠣꠘꠎꠣꠘꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Tanzania”
  • Tajik: “Танзания”
  • Talysh: “Tənzəniə”
  • Talysh: “Tənzənijə”
  • Tamil: “தன்சானியா”
  • Tamil: “தான்சானியா”
  • Taroko: “Tanzania”
  • Tatar: “Танзания”
  • Telugu: “టాంజానియా”
  • Thai: “แทนซาเนีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแทนซาเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཏན་ཛ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ታንዛኒያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tenisānia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tansania”
  • Tsonga: “Tanzania”
  • Tumbuka: “Tanzania”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تنزانيا”
  • Turkish: “Tanzanya”
  • Turkmen: “Tanzaniýa”
  • Twi: “Tanzania”
  • Tyap: “Muna̱pyia̱ Ri̱pobi̱lik Ta̱nzaniya”
  • Tyap: “Ta̱nzaniya”
  • Udmurt: “Танзания”
  • Uighur: “تانزانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Об’єднана Республіка Танзанія”
  • Ukrainian: “Обʼєднана Республіка Танзанія”
  • Ukrainian: “Танзанія, Обʼєднана Республіка”
  • Ukrainian: “Танзанія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tansania”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tansanija”
  • Urdu: “تنزانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tanzaniya”
  • Venetian: “Tanzània”
  • Veps: “Tanzanii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Thống nhất Tanzania”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Thống nhất Tanzania”
  • Vietnamese: “Tan-da-ni-a (Tanzania)”
  • Vietnamese: “Tan-da-ni-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanzania”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tanzania”
  • Volapük: “Tansanän”
  • Võro: “Tansaania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tanzania”
  • Welsh: “Tansanïa”
  • Welsh: “Tanzania”
  • Welsh: “Tanzanïa”
  • Western Armenian: “Թանզանիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Tanzania”
  • Western Mari: “Танзани”
  • Western Panjabi: “تنزانیا”
  • Wolof: “Tansani”
  • Wolof: “Taŋsani”
  • Wu Chinese: “坦桑尼亞”
  • Xhosa: “ITanzania”
  • Yakut: “Танзания”
  • Yiddish: “טאנזאניע”
  • Yiddish: “טאַנזאַניע”
  • Yoruba: “Tànsáníà”
  • Yoruba: “Tàǹsáníà”
  • Yoruba: “Tanzania”
  • Yue Chinese: “坦桑尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Tanzânia”
  • Zhuang: “Tanzania”
  • Zulu: “i-Tanzania”
  • Zulu: “ITanzania”
  • Zulu: “IThanzaniya”
  • “ma Tansanija”
  • “Tansaania”
  • “Tanzanėjė”
  • “Tanzania”
  • “Tanzanie”
  • “TZ”
  • “TZA”
  • “तंजानिया”

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