- Tanzania the country’s name came from the merger of the two colonies of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964.
- Zanzibar is an archipelago consisting of 74 islands. Zanzibar is the largest city in the archipelago, consisting of 75 islands the major ones being Unguja and Pemba.
- Zanzibar got into the Guinness Book of Records as the place where the shortest war in history took place. In 1896, the British won the war with the local population in 38 minutes.
- Zanzibar, translated from Swahili, sounds like “the coast of black people”. Until the middle of the 19th century. it was the largest slave market.
- The highest mountain in Tanzania is Mount Kilimanjaro. It is also the highest in Africa, 5895m, and also the highest free-standing mountain in the World.
- Tanzania is the world’s only semi-precious stone tanzanite source, found in Mount Kilimanjaro’s foothill.
- A protected area occupies around 30% of the country’s area. Tanzania has 22 parks, 17 game reserves, and over 800 protected areas.
- Tanzania is the first country in the world in terms of the highest concentration of wild animals per 1 sq. km
- In Tanzania, the largest land migration of animals (Wildebeests), is one of nature’s greatest displays at Serengeti National Park, the annual migration of over a million wildebeests and zebras.
- All the major three lakes in Africa are found in Tanzania, lake Victoria being the largest lake in Africa and the source of the river Nile the Longest river in the World, Lake Tanganyika is the second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal and the first in Africa, plus Lake Nyasa third largest lake in Africa
