Study a Master/Doctorate in Tanzania, Dodoma, Dar es Salaam

International Trade and Business in Tanzania, Dodoma, Dar es Salaam

Study in the United Republic of Tanzania (East Africa, Master in Foreign Trade)

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 Tanzanian have access to 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 GDP and 85% of 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 GDP)
10. Mining industry in Tanzania represents 3.3% of GDP
11. Tourism represents 17% of GDP
12. Tanzania's main exports are 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo (Bukavu, 459 kilometres), Rwanda (217 kilometres) and Zambia (338 kilometres)

More information: Business in Tanzania, at EENI Business School & HA University Training Portal.

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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 square kilometres
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 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)

Transport and Logistics in Tanzania

1. Port of Dar es Salaam is the largest Tanzanian port

Economic Integration Organisations (Tanzania)

1. East African Community (EAC)
2. United States-East African Community Agreement
3. Southern African Development Community (SADC)
4. COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
5. Nile Basin Initiative
6. International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
7. Indian-Ocean Rim Association (IORA)

Tanzanian ethnicities:

1. Tanzanian population has 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 Tanzanian)
   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 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

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