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.
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