Tanzania
General country information
| Dar es Salaam | |
| republic | |
| 945087 km2 | |
| 40213160 (July 2008 est.) / 42/km2 | |
| Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) currency converter | |
| $ 1300 (2007 est.) | |
| 0.467 (2005) | |
| Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages |
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| mainland - Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%; Zanzibar - more than 99% Muslim | |
| varies from tropical along coast to temperate in highlands | |
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