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January 30, 2023

Tanzania Energy and Environment Facts

Natural resources, energy and environment Tanzania is rich in metals, gems and a variety of minerals. In particular, there are large assets of gold…

Cuisine in Tanzania
July 14, 2022

Tanzania Religion, Transport, Geography, Politics and Population

Religion in Tanzania About a third of the inhabitants of the mainland of the country are adherents of local traditional beliefs, the same number…

Flora in Tanzania
August 16, 2021

Tanzania National Parks

Geography to Tanzania Immediately south of the equator, between the Indian Ocean in the east and the lakes of the Central African Rift in…

Stay healthy in Tanzania
May 27, 2021

Travel to Tanzania

Currency: Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) Exchange rate: TZS 2,748 TZS per € (November 2020) Time zone: UTC +3 Country code (Tel.): +255 Climate (for Dar…

19th century architecture in Stonetown
May 20, 2021

Tanzania Culture and Religion

Culture Art Traditional East African art – in the form of valuable everyday objects, masks, musical instruments, etc. – will hardly be found in…

Traffic safety in Tanzania
May 14, 2021

Living in Tanzania

GDP: $ 65.5 billion (estimated, 2020) Per capita income (purchasing power parity): $ 1,233 (estimated, 2020) Human Development Rank (HDI): Rank 159 of 189…

Tanzanian children get a free primary school education
May 13, 2021

Tanzania Education and Health

The education and the health system in Tanzania were once exemplary in Africa. Due to the deteriorating overall economic development, especially during the 1980’s,…

Tanzania Ethnic Groups
May 12, 2021

Tanzania Ethnic Groups and Languages

Alphabetized adults: 77.9% (2017) Major religions: Christianity (60%), Islam (36%) (2010) Urban population: 33% (estimated, 2017) Life expectancy (male / female): 63/66 years (2018)…

Lutheran Church in Dar es Salaam
May 11, 2021

Tanzania Development Policy

National efforts To put Tanzania on its own two feet (‘self-reliance’) was one of the goals of Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa policy. However, demand and…

Ten thousand Tanzanian shillings
May 10, 2021

Tanzania Economic Sectors

Agriculture & Fisheries The agriculture is still far from a large proportion (30% in 2017) of the gross domestic product of the agricultural state…

Tanzania Economy
May 9, 2021

Tanzania Economy Overview

Economy: system and politics The ‘ Ujamaa policy ‘ (Swahili: kinship, brotherhood) founded by Julius Nyerere became the epitome of African socialism. The policy…

German-Tanzanian cooperation
May 8, 2021

Tanzania Foreign Policy

For many donor countries, Tanzania is one of the continent’s “model pupils” and also enjoys a good reputation among other African governments as a…

CCM election campaign
May 7, 2021

Tanzania Human Rights and Media

Human rights The human rights situation in Tanzania was also affected by the conflicts in and around Zanzibar. Anyone from Pemba, the stronghold of…

Election campaign in Tanzania
May 6, 2021

Tanzania Parties and Elections

The programmatic differences between the political parties in Tanzania are not very marked. On the mainland, which makes up 80% of the electoral districts,…

John Magufuli
May 5, 2021

Tanzania Political System

The legal system of Tanzania is based on the example of Great Britain, but there is a local pluralism of legal systems in which…

National coat of arms of Zimbabwe
May 4, 2021

Tanzania History

National symbols The most important symbols of national importance are united in the national coat of arms (Nembo) of Tanzania: The flag is the…

Geographical location of Tanzania
May 3, 2021

Tanzania Cities and Infrastructure

Cities and Infrastructure About 57 million people live in Tanzania. After 10 years, another census took place at the end of 2012. With 50…

Dry savannah in Tanzania
May 2, 2021

Tanzania Geography

Natural space and climate Tanzania is located in the (core) tropics of East Africa. However, only the narrow coastal strip along the Indian Ocean,…

Tanzania's cityscape
May 1, 2021

Tanzania Overview

Tanzania is located in eastern Africa, below the equator. The mainland of Tanzania is also called Tanganyika and, together with the part of Zanzibar,…

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