Key facts
Capital: Dodoma
Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique
Government: United Republic of Tanzania
Currency: Tanzanian shillings (TZS)
Area: 947,300 sq km
Population: 62,092,761 (July 2021 est.)
Languages: 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
Religion: Christian 63.1%, Muslim 34.1%, folk religion 1.1%, Buddhist <1%, Hindu <1%, Jewish <1%, other <1%, unspecified 1.6% (2020 est.)
TimeZone: UTC+3
Tel Code: +255
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