Tanzania
Tanzania (officially United Republic of Tanzania) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Dodoma, and is home to roughly 68.6M people.
Its official languages are English, Swahili; the currency in circulation is Tanzanian shilling (Sh); people from here are called Tanzanian.
- »Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
- »The Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater sit within its borders.
- »Olduvai Gorge has produced some of the most important early hominin fossils.
Tanzania touches eight neighbours: Burundi to the northwest, DR Congo to the west, Kenya to the northeast, Malawi to the south, Mozambique to the south, Rwanda to the northwest, Uganda to the north and Zambia to the southwest. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Dodoma was designated capital in 1974 to move government inland, but the transfer took decades and Dar es Salaam remains the largest city and commercial centre.
946,490 km² (365,442 sq mi), 30th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Venezuela.
Population 68,560,157, 22nd of 198 on file. That averages 72 per km² (188 per sq mi).
The green and blue triangles, split by a black diagonal bordered in gold, merge the flags of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which united in 1964 to form the country.