Zanzibar
Zanzibar is an island off the coast of Tanzania famous for its history, culture, archeological sites, and stunning white sand beaches. Zanzibar Province includes Pemba Island to the north as well as many smaller islands in the Zanzibar archipelago.
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Zanzibar
- Type: Island with 1,890,000 residents
- Description: archipelago in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Archipelag Zanzibaru”, “Archipielago de Zanzibar”, “arxipèlag de Zanzibar”, “Gewürzinseln”, “Kvapiosios salos”, “Prieskonių salos”, “Spice Islands”, “Zansibar”, “Zanzibar Archipelago”, “Zanzibar-archiel”, “Zanzibaro archipelagas”, “Занзибар (группа островов)”, “Занзибар (острова)”, and “মশলা দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Category: island group
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-5.6433° or 5° 38′ 36″ south
Longitude of center
39.5453° or 39° 32′ 43″ east
Population
1,890,000
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Zanzibar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرخبيل زنجبار”
- Armenian: “Զանզիբար”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu de Zanzíbar”
- Bashkir: “Занзибар (архипелаг)”
- Bashkir: “Занзибар”
- Basque: “Zanzibar uhartedia”
- Belarusian: “Занзыбар”
- Bengali: “জাঞ্জিবার দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bulgarian: “Занзибарски архипелаг”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Zanzíbar”
- Catalan: “Zanzibar”
- Cebuano: “Zanzibar Archipelago”
- Chinese: “桑給巴爾群島”
- Chinese: “桑给巴尔群岛”
- Croatian: “arhipelag Zanzibar”
- Croatian: “Zanzibarsko otočje”
- Czech: “Zanzibarské souostroví”
- Dutch: “Zanzibar”
- Dutch: “Zanzibararchipel”
- Esperanto: “Zanzibara Insularo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Zanzibar Archipelago”
- Finnish: “Sansibarin saaristo”
- French: “Zanzibar”
- Galician: “Arquipélago de Zanzíbar”
- Georgian: “ზანზიბარის არქიპელაგი”
- German: “Sansibar-Archipel”
- German: “Sansibar”
- Hausa: “Teburin Zanzibar”
- Hebrew: “זנזיבר”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Zanzibar (Tanzania)”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Zanzibar”
- Italian: “Arcipelago di Zanzibar”
- Japanese: “ザンジバル諸島”
- Korean: “잔지바르 제도”
- Latin: “archipelagus Zanzibarae”
- Latin: “Zanzibara”
- Lithuanian: “Zanzibaro salynas”
- Macedonian: “Занзибарски Архипелаг”
- Malagasy: “Zanzibar”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Zanzibar”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Zanzibar islands for Tanzania”
- Northern Frisian: “Sansibar Eilunen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zanzibararkipelet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zanzibar”
- Ossetian: “Занзибар”
- Persian: “مجمعالجزایر زنگبار”
- Polish: “Zanzibar”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Zanzibar”
- Russian: “Занзибар”
- Serbian: “Занзибарски архипелаг”
- Shona: “Gururundu re Zanzibhari”
- Slovenian: “Zanzibarsko otočje”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Zanzíbar”
- Swahili: “Funguvisiwa la Zanzibar”
- Swedish: “Zanzibararkipelagen”
- Tajik: “Занзибар”
- Tamil: “சான்சிபார் தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Zanzibar Takımadaları”
- Ukrainian: “Занзібар”
- Urdu: “مجمع الجزائر زنجبار”
- Urdu: “مجموعہ الجزائر زنجبار”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Zanzibar”
- Western Frisian: “Sansibareilannen”
- Western Frisian: “Sânsibareilannen”
- Western Mari: “Занзибар”
- Western Panjabi: “مجموعہ الجزائر زنجبار”
- Wu Chinese: “桑给巴尔群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “桑給巴爾群島”
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