Tanzania
/ˌtanzəˈnɪə
/
A country in East Africa with a coastline on the Indian Ocean; population 41,048,500 (est. 2009); official languages, Swahili and English; capital, Dodoma.
Tanzania consists of a mainland area (the former Tanganyika) and the island of Zanzibar. A German colony (German East Africa) from the late 19th century, Tanganyika became a British mandate after the First World War and a trust territory, administered by Britain, after the Second, before becoming independent within the Commonwealth in 1961. It was named Tanzania after its union with Zanzibar in 1964.
Rhymes
- unicyclist
- unidea'd
- unideal
- unidealised
- unidealized
- unidentate
- unidentifiable
- unidentified
- unidimensional
- unidiomatic
- unidirectional
- unidirectionality
- unidirectionally
- UNIDO
- uniface
- unifactorial
- unification
- Unification Church
- unificatory
- unified field theory
- unifier
- uniflow
- uniform
- Uniform Commercial Code
- uniformed