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11 unusual facts about Tanzania


Battle of Jassin

The German commander, Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, decided to attack Jassin in order to prevent further danger to Tanga, which lay more than 50 kilometres to the south and had previously been successfully defended against a British attack.

Battle of Kisaki

The Battle of Kisaki was a confrontation between German and South Africa forces near the town of Kisaki, German East Africa, on 7–8 September 1916.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

Clarinets for Conservation is based in Moshi, Tanzania and aims to raise awareness and promote conservation of Mpingo through music education.

Hussein Nasser Walji

Hussein Nasser Walji (3 September 1920-17 December 2005) served as the president of Tanzania's Dar-as-Salaam Jamaat during the expansion of the community in the 1960s, and was involved in the establishment of Mehfil-e-Asgari.

Kaloleni

Kaloleni, Tanzania, an administrative ward in the Arusha District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania

Sange

Sange, Tanzania, an administrative ward in the Ileje district of the Mbeya Region

Siku Njema

Written in the first person, the book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab.

Southern Highlands

Southern Highlands, Tanzania, Africa, a region of rich biodiversity at the southern tip of the East African Rift

Tangasaurus

All specimens were collected by F. P. Mennell in 1922 at the Mizimbazi River near Tanga City, northeastern Tanzania.

United States Ambassador to Tanzania

An embassy in Dar es Salaam was established on December 9, 1961—independence day for Tanganyika.

Usambara Railway

A railway company was created in 1891 with the aim, to connect the port of Tanga at the Indian Ocean with the Lake Victoria by passing south of the Usambara Mountains.


Air Tanzania

On 21 November 2011, Air Tanzania began negotiations with Export Development Canada (EDC) to explore how EDC could assist the airline to acquire more aircraft from Bombardier, a Canadian airplane manufacturer.

Ann Claire Williams

For several years, Williams has also served as a member of international training delegations that have traveled to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Hague.

Arusha District

As of 1994, Arusha District was the wealthiest district in Tanzania with 91,024 Tanzanian shillings.

Azania

Modern identifications of Rhapta place it on the coasts of modern-day Tanzania—indicating that Azania referred to an area perhaps identical to the later Arab Zanj.

Azykh Cave

Archaeologists have suggested that the finds in the lowest layers of the cave are of a pre-Acheulean culture, one of the world's oldest (730,00-1,500,000 years) and in many ways similar to the Olduwan culture in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge and the culture which produced the famous Lascaux cave in southeastern France.

Bende people

The Bende are an ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.

Bonde la Usongwe

Bonde la Usongwe is an administrative ward in the Mbeya Rural district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Bupigu

Bupigu is an administrative ward in the Ileje district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Busole

Busole is an administrative ward in the Kyela district of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania.

Chukwani

Chukwani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Chwaka Bay

Chwaka Bay is a large indentation in the central east coast of the Tanzanian island of Unguja - the largest island of the Zanzibar Archipelago.

Cirolana mercuryi

Cirolana mercuryi is a species of isopod found on coral reefs off Bawe Island, (Zanzibar, Tanzania) in East Africa and named for Freddie Mercury, "arguably Zanzibar's most famous popular musician and singer".

Daniel Musyoka Mutinda

He later joined the University of East Africa to pursue a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree at the faculty of law in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve

The Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve System (DMRS) is a group of marine wildlife reserves in Tanzania, situated off the coast of Dar es Salaam Region.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Fukuchani

Fukuchani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Gairo

Gairo District, administrative district, Morogoro Region, central Tanzania

Gangwe Mobb

The group was established in late 90's soon after Kwanza Unit, Mr. II and other had popularized Swahili hip hop music in Tanzania.

George Simbachawene

George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene (born 5 July 1968) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kibakwe constituency since 2005.

Gogo people

The Gogo (or mgogo singular and Wagogo plural ) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.

Goodluck Ole-Medeye

Goodluck Joseph Ole-Medeye (born 14 March 1958) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Arumeru West constituency since 2010.

Harold K. Schneider

Schneider focused on East Africa in his field work, and was especially influenced by his study of the Turu in Tanzania.

Harrison Mwakyembe

Harrison George Mwakyembe (born 10 December 1955) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kyela constituency since 2005.

Hugo van Lawick

They married on 28 March 1964 in Chelsea Old Church, London and lived in Tanzania for many years, both at Gombe and elsewhere on other research projects.

Jackson's chameleon

The subspecies T. j. merumontanus can only be found on Mount Meru and the Arusha Region of Tanzania.

John S. Saul

He has also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, alongside activist-academics such as Giovanni Arrighi (with whom he wrote Essays on the Political Economy of Africa) and Walter Rodney; at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, alongside activist-academics such as Ruth First; and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa.

Kilimanjaro Expedition

Head explains the team's route to Kilimanjaro, which mostly consists of a way from Surrey to Rottingdean, with a giant leap from Rottingdean to Nairobi (Head's map of Britain cuts off there, and is overlying his map of Africa), down to Tanzania, and then asking from there.

Malangali

Malangali, Ileje, an administrative ward in Ileje District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania

Mangapwani

Mangapwani is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, the main island of Zanzibar.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Maurice Henry Dorman

Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah

Also known as Abdul Rahman, Abu Abdul Rahman al-Muhajir, Abdel Rahman, Abu Turab, Ibrahim al-Muhajir, and Mohammed K.A., he was wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

Mwananchi Communications

Having registered The Citizen with Tanzania Information Services (Maelezo) on 2 March 2001, the paper was only fully launched and published on September 16, 2004 to become the 5th English daily newspaper in the market.

Mwanza

Before the colonial era Mwanza Region was under the Sukuma, Kerewe, Kara and Zinza empires.

Nashil Pichen

He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma who was from Mbala in Northern Province on the Zambia-Tanzania border and Benson Simbeye.

Nelly Kamwelu

Nelly Alexandra Kamwelu (born 1991) is a Tanzanian model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe Tanzania and Miss Southern Africa International titles in 2011.She represented her country in Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil, Miss International 2011 in China, Miss Earth 2011 in Manila, Philippines, and Miss Tourism Queen International in China.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Oreochromis korogwe

Oreochromis korogwe (Korogwe tilapia) is a species of cichlid native to Kenya and Tanzania where it occurs in the Pangani River system as well as the Zigi River.

Seifu Mekonnen

Mekonnen received awards and recognition from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, president Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, president Idi Amin of Uganda, and president Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.

Suji

Suji, Kilimanjaro, a small village in the north-eastern region of Tanzania

Tanzania min tiger plan

Tanzania Mini Tiger Plan is an economic plan aimed at fostering development in Tanzania by increasing exports to the global market.

Tony Fall

Fall died after a heart attack on 1 December 2007 while a member of the organisation team of the East African Safari Classic Rally in his hotel room in Tanzania, leaving his wife Pat and two sons from a previous marriage.

Tundi Spring Agardy

Sound Seas explored the feasibility of establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll for The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and conducted evaluations for the United Nations Development Programme in the Black Sea region, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for its support of WWF climate change work in Cameroon, Fiji, and Tanzania, and International Financial Corporation (IFC) in its support of TNC work in Komodo, Indonesia.

Uroa

Uroa is a small coastal village on central eastern Unguja (Zanzibar Island), in Tanzania.

Walter Rodney

He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania during the period 1966-67 and later in Jamaica at his alma mater UWI Mona.

White-spotted Izak

The white-spotted Izak or African spotted catshark, Holohalaelurus punctatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Indian Ocean off Natal, South Africa, southern Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania between latitudes 4° S and 37° S, at depths of between 220 and 440 m.

Zaramo people

The Zaramo are a Bantu people who are based in Dar es Salaam Region and Pwani Region in Tanzania, particularly in the area around the present day city of Dar es Salaam, the Pugu Hills, and Bagamoyo.