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Tanzania
Tanzania is a country located in southeastern Africa, which is surrounded on the north by Kenya and Uganda, on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the south by Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia, and on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda. Tanzania includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, and other offshore islands in the Indian Ocean. The total area of Tanzania is 364,900 square miles. Dar es Salaam is the capital and largest city. Tanzania is mostly flat and low along the coast, but a plateau that an altitude of about 4000 feet makes up the greater part of the country. Groups of mountains rise in the northeast and southwest. There is a volcano on the northern border called Kilimanjaro that is about 19,341ft high and is the highest mountain in Africa Three of the great lakes of Africa are on the border of Tanzania. Lake Tanganyika is on the western border, Lake Victoria on the northwest, and Lake Nyasa on the southwest. Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika are in the Great Rift Valley.
The population of Tanzania is 36,232,074 and consists mostly of members of more than 120 black African groups, the majority of which speak a Bantu language.The largest groups are the Sukuma and the Nyamwezi. The other groups are Haya, Ngonde, Chagga, Gogo, Ha, Hehe, Nyakyusa, Nyika, Ngoni, Yao, and Masai. The population also includes people of Indian, Pakistani, and Goan origin, and small Arab and European communities. Islam is the religion of about one-third of the people on the mainland. Roman Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination of Tanzania. Swahili and English are the official languages of Tanzania, but many people continue to use the language of their ethnic group. Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is considered to be the second from the bottom on the poverty scale in Africa. Tanzania does not have enough school for all of the children. Only about 66% of the children are enrolled ...