Tanzania
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Tanzania Shillings
Kiswahili and English
55.5 million
tropical climate around the coast but as you move to the highlands the climate switches to temperate. (April – Mid May is the long rains / green season, June –Sept is the cool season, Nov- Dec is the short rains while Oct – March is the hottest season) Temperatures range from 25 to 30 degrees C at the coast but average temperatures around the country are between 22 and 27 degree C.
Union day 26th April 1964
Agriculture, manufacturing (wood processing, textile and clothing, leather, plastics, printing and publishing) , mining ( tanzanite and diamonds, gypsum, salt copper, silver ore, phosphate, bauxite, graphite, and tin, gold, nickel), natural gas.
Multiple party republic
Adopted in 2003 Provides for a two-house parliament, elected President, and multi-party politics. Also sought to prevent Hutu or Tutsi hegemony over political power.
Executive, judicial, and legislative.
Alliance for Change and Transparency/ACT, Alliance for Democratic Change/ADC, National Convention for Construction and Reform/NCCR-M, National League for Democracy,Party of Democracy and Development,Revolutionary Party/CCM,Tanzania Labor Party/TLP,United Democratic Party/UDP.
Apart from wealth in agriculture, forestry and wildlife land, Tanzania is also very rich in minerals such as gold, diamond, iron, coal, nickel, tanzanite, uranium and natural gas.[2] Recently natural offshore gas deposits have been discovered.
Travel and Tourism contributed 17.5 percent of Tanzania’s gross domestic product in 2016 and employed 11.0 percent of the country’s labour force (1,189,300 jobs) in 2013. Overall receipts rose from US$1.74 billion in 2004 to US$4.48 billion in 2013, and receipts from international tourists rose from US$1.255 billion in 2010 to US$2 billion in 2016.
In 2016, 1,284,279 tourists arrived at Tanzania’s borders compared to 590,000 in 2005. The vast majority of tourists visit Zanzibar or a “Northern circuit” of Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, and Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2013, the most visited National Park was Serengeti (452,485 tourists), followed by Manyara (187,773) and Tarangire (165,949). Tanzania has a varied Geography, including deep and large Freshwater and Salt lakes, many National Parks, and Africa’s highest point, Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m or 19,341 ft).Northeast Tanzania is mountainous and includes Mount Meru, an active Volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant Volcano, and the Usambara and Pare mountain ranges. Kilimanjaro attracts thousands of tourists each year. Further Northwest is Lake Victoria on the Kenya–Uganda–Tanzania border. This is the largest Lake in Africa by surface area and is traditionally named as the source of the Nile River. Lake Victoria covers 69,490 sq km (26,832 sq miles), which is Africa’s largest lake and 49% of it lies in Tanzania. Southwest of this, separating Tanzania from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Lake Tanganyika. This lake is estimated to be the deepest lake in Africa and second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal in Siberia, with maximum depths of 1,470m (4,821ft), and is 673km (420 miles) long.
