Tanganyika (1961–62) Republic of Tanganyika (1962–64) | |||||||||
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1961–1964 | |||||||||
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Capital | Dar es Salaam | ||||||||
Common languages | |||||||||
Government | Unitary one-party state Parliamentary monarchy (1961–62) Presidential republic (1962–64) | ||||||||
Head of state | |||||||||
• 1961–62 | Elizabeth II | ||||||||
• 1962–64 | Julius Nyerere | ||||||||
Governor-General | |||||||||
• 1961–62 | Richard Turnbull | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• | 9 December 1961 | ||||||||
• Republic | 9 December 1962 | ||||||||
• | 26 April 1964 | ||||||||
Currency | East African shilling | ||||||||
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Tanganyika is the mainland part of Tanzania. From 9 December 1961 to 26 April 1964 it was an independent state.
It was an East African territory lying between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes: Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika.
Once part of the larger colony of German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika), it comprised today's Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania, but not Zanzibar.