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United Republic of Tanzania Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (Swahili) | |
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 Location of Tanzania (dark blue) in the African Union (light blue) | |
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| Capital | Dodoma (de jure)Dar es Salaam (de facto) |
| Official languages | |
| Swahili | |
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| Religion | (2010 estimate) Christianity 61.4% Islam 35.2% Folk Religion 1.8% Irreligious 1.4% Other 0.2% |
| Demonym(s) | Tanzanian |
| Government | Unitary presidential republic |
| Samia Hassan Suluhu | |
| Philip Mpango | |
| Kassim Majaliwa | |
• Speaker | Job Ndugai |
| Ibrahim Hamis Juma | |
| Legislature | National Assembly |
| Independence from the United Kingdom | |
| 9 December 1961 | |
| 10 December 1963 | |
• Merger | 26 April 1964 |
• Current constitution | 25 April 1977 |
| Area | |
• Total | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (31st) |
• Water (%) | 6.4 |
| Population | |
• 2016 estimate | 55,572,201 (28th) |
• 2012 census | 44,928,923 |
• Density | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $163.522 billion |
• Per capita | $3,296 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $51.194 billion |
• Per capita | $1,032 |
| Gini (2012) | 37.8 medium |
| HDI (2015) |  0.531low · 151st |
| Currency | Tanzanian shilling (TZS) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +255 |
| ISO 3166 code | TZ |
| Internet TLD | .tz |
Tanzania is a country in East Africa. The official languages are Kiswahili and English. It is next to Africa's biggest lake, Lake Victoria.
In 2017, there were about 54,000,000 people living in Tanzania. They are divided into 120 tribes; none have more than 10% of the population. Tanzania is a multicultural society. There are many languages and religions in Tanzania; the main religions being Christianity and Islam.
The president of the United Republic of Tanzania is Samia Suluhu Hassan. Tanzania is a member of the United Nations, UNIDO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, SADC, PTA, and the ADB. It is also signatory to the Lome Convention.
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