Holds Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, and part of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake on Earth.
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Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
945.09Kkmยฒ of land
$1.09KGDP / person
Dar es SalaamCapital
- ISO codes
- TZ ยท TZA
- Density
- 61 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Currency
- Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
- Dial code
- +255
- Internet domain
- .tz
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 6.0520ยฐ S, 34.9590ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Tanzanian
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $63.18B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 8
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By the numbers
How Tanzania stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
25th
of 242 ยท 0.76% of world population
Land area
32nd
of 242 ยท 0.63% of world land
GDP per person
210th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
143rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Tanzania
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 58,005,463 people, the 25th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.76 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 945,087 kmยฒ, making it the 32nd largest country here - about 10.3 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 61 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Dar es Salaam, at 6.80ยฐ S, 39.27ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,930,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique (and 3 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Dar es Salaam.
The currency is the Tanzanian shilling (TZS, symbol Sh).
Has 2 official languages: English and Swahili.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Dar es Salaam
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Dar es Salaam
Dar-Es-Salaam
6.7981ยฐ S, 39.2664ยฐ E
2.93M
2
Mwanza
Mwanza
2.5200ยฐ S, 32.9300ยฐ E
493.94K
3
Zanzibar
Zanzibar West
6.1600ยฐ S, 39.2000ยฐ E
403.66K
4
Arusha
Arusha
3.3600ยฐ S, 36.6700ยฐ E
341.14K
5
Mbeya
Mbeya
8.8900ยฐ S, 33.4300ยฐ E
291.65K
6
Morogoro
Morogoro
6.8200ยฐ S, 37.6600ยฐ E
250.9K
7
Dodoma
Dodoma
6.1833ยฐ S, 35.7500ยฐ E
218.27K
๐ Peaks
Kilimanjaro
5,895 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Serengeti Migration
Wildlife
Around 1.5 million wildebeest run a clockwise circuit through the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year.
Zanzibar
Beach
The old Spice Islands, where a coral-stone trading town meets tides that walk the sea out a kilometre.
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with Tanzania.