{"id":355404,"date":"2026-02-05T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355404"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:07:14","slug":"key-facts-about-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and Tanzania held the fourth meeting of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) in Zanzibar from February 2 to 3 to further strengthen bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Key Facts about Tanzania<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/upload\/65\/05\/1f\/tz-01.jpg?resize=274%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tanzania \" width=\"274\" height=\"301\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is <strong>located in East Africa.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bordering Nations:<\/strong> It is bordered by seven countries: <strong>the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Mozambique, and Rwanda.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>eastern border <\/strong>of Tanzania meets<strong> the\u00a0Indian Ocean.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Capital:<\/strong> <strong>Dar es Salaam<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Official Language:<\/strong> Swahili and English<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Geography: <\/strong><\/span><\/span>The<strong> East African Rift Valley<\/strong> is a <strong>major physical feature<\/strong> that <strong>runs through<\/strong> Tanzania.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">It is <strong>divided<\/strong> into the <strong>Eastern Rift and the Western Rift.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Eastern Rift<\/strong> includes <strong>Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Major Lake:<\/strong> Tanzania has shorelines along <strong>three major African Great Lakes: Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika (western rift), and Lake Nyassa.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major River:<\/strong>\u00a0<span id=\"ref419133\"><\/span>Ruvuma, Rufiji, Wami, and Pangani<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Islands:<\/strong> <strong>Zanzibar<\/strong>, Pemba, and Mafia located off the eastern coast in the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conservation reserves:<\/strong> The country is home to famous wildlife areas such as<strong> Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Zanzibar\u2019s Stone Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/strong> and is a major tourist attraction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India and Tanzania held the fourth meeting of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) in Zanzibar from February 2 to 3 to further strengthen bilateral ties. Key Facts about Tanzania Location: It is located in East Africa.\u00a0 Bordering Nations: It is bordered by seven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-tanzania\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts about Tanzania<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-355404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}