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United Republic of Tanzania

  • President:John Pombe Joseph Magufuli
  • Prime Minister:Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa
  • Capital city:Dodoma
  • Languages:Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:57,310,019 (2017)
  • Area, sq km:885,800 (2017)
  • GDP per capita, US$:936 (2017)
  • GDP, billion current US$:52.1 (2017)
  • GINI index:37.8 (2011)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:137 (2017)

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