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Business in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mwanza, Arusha, logistics

The United Republic of Tanzania is an East African country

1. Jamhuri and Muungano wa Tanzania in Swahili
2. Dodoma is the political and administrative capital of Tanzania
3. Largest cities of Tanzania: Dar es Salaam (economic and commercial capital of Tanzania), Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Tanga, Kahama, Tabora and Zanzibar City
4. The headquarters of the East African Community (EAC) are in Arusha
5. Tanzania is a developing country
   1. Only 15% of the Tanzanian people have access to the electric power
6. Tanzania is one of the most dynamic African countries
7. Tanzania is an African Frontier Market
8. Main Tanzanian economic activity: agriculture
   1. 25% of the GDP and 85% of the Tanzanian exports
   2. Maize is the main food crop in Tanzania, followed by cassava, coffee, sweet potatoes, beans, bananas, rice and millet.
9. Industry and construction constitute the other pillar of the Tanzanian economy (22% of the GDP)
10. Mining industry in Tanzania represents 3.3% of the GDP
11. Tourism represents 17% of the GDP
12. Tanzanian main exports: gold, coffee and cotton.
13. Borders of Tanzania: Burundi (451 kilometres), Kenya (769 kilometres), Malawi (Mzuzu, 475 kilometres), Mozambique (756 kilometres), Uganda (391 kilometres), the DR Congo (Bukavu, 459 kilometres), Rwanda (217 kilometres) and Zambia (338 kilometres)

Logistics and Transportation in Tanzania

1. Port of Dar es Salaam is the largest Tanzanian port
2. Asia-Africa Growth Transport Corridor

Trade and Business Organisations (Tanzania)

1. East African Community (EAC)
2. United States-East African Community Agreement
3. Southern African Development Community (SADC)
4. COMESA-EAC-SADC Agreement
5. Nile Basin Initiative
6. Conference on the Great Lakes Region
7. IORA
8. Global System of Trade Preferences

1. African Development Bank
2. African Union
3. AUDA-NEPAD
4. Economic Commission for Africa

Tanzania

1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
2. Doctorate in African Business

More information: Trade and Business in Tanzania, at EENI Global Business School.

Reginald Mengi

1. Tanzania is a Presidential Constitutional Republic
2. Tanganyika gained its Independence from the United Kingdom in 1961 and Zanzibar in 1963 (History of Tanzania)
3. Calling code: 255
4. Country code top-level domain: .tz
5. Currency of Tanzania: Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)

Mohammed Dewji

1. Tanzanian population: 56 million people (2000: 35 million people)
2. «Tanzania» = Tanganyika (candle in the desert, in Swahili) and Zanzibar
3. Area of Tanzania: 948,087 km²
4. Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa and the 13th largest African Country
5. Tanzanian Ocean Coast: 1,424 kilometres
6. Regions of Tanzania

Tanzania is located in the Great Lakes region, on the east coast of Africa:

1. Three of the African Great Lakes are partially in Tanzania (Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika)
2. Zanzibar Archipelago (Unguja)
3. Islands: Pemba and Mafia
4. Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters of altitude), the highest mountain in Africa (north-east of Tanzania)

Tanzanian ethnicities:

1. 125 ethnic groups
2. Main Tanzanian ethnic groups (Bantu origin): Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga and Haya
3. Sukuma and Nyamwezi are Bantus

Religions in Tanzania:

1. Christianity (61 % of Tanzanians)
   1. Protestantism
   2. Catholicism
2. Islam
3. Traditional African Religions

Said Salim Bakhresa

Languages of Tanzania

The official languages of Tanzania are Swahili and English.

1. Swahili is used in the administration and primary school
2. 10% of Tanzanians speak Swahili as a first language and 90% as a second language
3. English is the language of business and secondary and higher education
4. In Tanzania, more than 100 different languages are spoken

Higher Education in Tanzania

Tanzania Tanzanie Tanzânia

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