Eastern Africa
Flag of Tanzania
Where Africa's roof meets its oldest plains.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #18a830 28%
- #0090d8 28%
- #000000 28%
- #f0c000 7%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Tanzania in numbers
| Official name | United Republic of Tanzania |
|---|---|
| Capital | Dodoma |
| Region | Eastern Africa, Africa |
| Population | 59,734,213 |
| Area | 945,087 km² · 63 people per km² |
| Currency | Tanzanian shilling (TZS) |
| Languages | Swahili, English |
| Country codes | TZ · TZA · .tz |
| Coastline | Has a coast |
Things worth knowing
- Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, is a free-standing volcano whose snow-capped summit rises straight from warm savanna near the equator.
- Every year well over a million wildebeest and zebra thunder across the Serengeti in a circular migration, the largest overland movement of mammals on Earth.
- Olduvai Gorge has yielded some of the oldest known human ancestor remains, which is why the region is often called the cradle of humankind.
Did you know
Swahili, Tanzania's national language, grew up as a coastal trading tongue and is now spoken by tens of millions across East Africa as a shared lingua franca.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.