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DEMOGRAPHICS & HISTORY

Tanzania

Facts & Figures

• Area: 365,755 square miles

• Capital: Dodoma

• Languages: >bLSTWT T^ _SP ZʯNTLW WLYR`LRP& 0YRWT^S LYO _]TMLW WLYR`LRP^ L]P LW^Z ^[ZVPY

• Ethnicity: Mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130
tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African,
mixed Arab and African

• Location: Tanzania is bordered by Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,
Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia

• Geography: 8LTYWLYO ?LYeLYTLɪ^ WLYO^NL[P T^ ʮL_ LYO WZb LWZYR _SP NZL^_ 4Y _SP
interior, a plateau at an average altitude of about 4,000 feet makes up most of the
country, and isolated mountain groups rise in the northeast and southwest.

• Population: 51,045,882 (estimate)

• Religions: Mainland - Christian 61.4%, Muslim 35.2%, folk religion 1.8%, other 0.2%,
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• Time Zone: Tanzania is on Eastern Africa Time, eight hours ahead of U.S. EST. When it is
6am in Washington D.C., it is 2pm in Dar es Salaam.

National Holidays: Tanzania

In addition to the holidays listed below, 05/01 Worker’s Day
Botswana celebrates a number of national
06/07 Saba Saba
holidays that follow a lunar calendar, such
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you will be traveling during these holidays,
please visit www.timeanddate.com/ 10/14 Mwalimu Nyerere Day
holidays.
12/09 Republic Day
01/01 New Year’s Day
12/25 Christmas Day
01/12 Zanzibar Revolution Day
12/26 Boxing Day
04/26 Union Day

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