COUNTRY GUIDE · Africa
Tanzania
Explore the geography, landmarks, and distinctive stories of Tanzania.
Tanzania at a glance
- CAPITAL
- Dodoma
- REGION
- Africa
- POPULATION
- 69,000,000
- AREA
- 947,303 km²
- LANGUAGE
- Swahili
- CURRENCY
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
COUNTRY SUPERLATIVE
Great Migration
The Serengeti is part of one of the world's greatest wildlife migrations.
DID YOU KNOW?
A surprising detail about Tanzania
Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge has yielded fossils and stone tools important to the study of early humans.
Geography and nearby countries
PinPointr places Tanzania in its Africa region. Its reference dataset lists an area of 947,303 km² and a population of approximately 69,000,000. The country is not listed as landlocked in PinPointr’s geography reference.
Listed land neighbors
Country statistics are fixed PinPointr gameplay references and may differ from current government or international estimates. Country highlights and illustrations are educational material, not official travel advice.