Tanzania

Tanzania, officially de United Republic of Tanzania, be country insyd East Africa within de African Great Lakes region. Ebe bordered by Uganda to de northwest; Kenya to de northeast; de Indian Ocean to de east; Mozambique den Malawi to de south; Zambia to de southwest; den Rwanda, Burundi, den de Democratic Republic of the Congo to de west. According to de 2024 national census, Tanzania get a population of around 67,5 million, wey dey make am de most populous country wey dey locate entirely south of de equator.

 Etymology 
Na dem create de name Tanzania as a clipped compound of de names of de two states wey dem unify make dem create de country: Tanganyika den Zanzibar.Harper, Douglas. "tanzania". Online Etymology Dictionary. Edey consist of de first three letters of de names of de two states ("Tan" den "Zan") den de suffix "-ia."

Dem derive de name Tanganyika from de Swahili words tanga "sail" den nyika "uninhabited plain, wilderness", wey dey create de phrase "sail in the wilderness". Dem sam times dey understand am as a reference to Lake Tanganyika.John Knouse: A Political World Gazetteer: Africa Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine website accessed 1 May 2007.

De name of Zanzibar dey derive from Zanj, de name of a local people (said to mean "black"), den Arabic barr "coast" anaa "shore."Harper, Douglas. "zanzibar". Online Etymology Dictionary.

 Demographics 
 Largest cities anaa towns insyd Tanzania

2012 Census General Report, March 2013 Combined Final for PrintingRankNameRegionPop.1Dar es SalaamDar es Salaam4,364,5412MwanzaMwanza706,5433ArushaArusha416,4424DodomaDodoma410,9565MbeyaMbeya385,2796MorogoroMorogoro315,8667TangaTanga273,3328KahamaShinyanga242,2089TaboraTabora226,99910Zanzibar CityZanzibar West223,033

 References 

Category:Tanzania
Category:1964 establishments insyd Tanzania
Category:Republics insyd de Commonwealth of Nations
Category:Countries for Africa insyd
Category:East African countries
Category:Countries den territories wer English be official language
Category:Least developed countries
Category:Former German colonies
Category:Member states of de African Union
Category:Member states of de Commonwealth of Nations
Category:Member states of de United Nations
Category:States den territories dem establish insyd 1964
Category:Swahili-speaking countries den territories

 Sources 

 Dis article dey incorporate text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY-SA IGO. 3.0. Text taken from UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030​, UNESCO.

 External links 

 Official website 
 Wikimedia Atlas of Tanzania

 Basic Statistics of Tanzania published as Open data by the National Bureau of Statistics (archived 15 July 2019)