Country Paper Tanzania
1. Background Information
1.1 Geography
The United Republic of Tanzania is located in the East of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique. It has borders with Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Tanzania contains of 945,087square kilometers, including the islands of Zanzibar, Mafia and Pemba. Thus it is about three times as big as Germany. Tanzania has a very special and unique landscape due to the Kilimanjaro, which is the highest mountain of whole Africa and Lake Victoria, which is the third largest freshwater lake in the world.
Today the official capital of Tanzania is Dodoma, in the very centre of the republic, because legislative offices are l resident here. Dar es Salaam, as the largest city of the country, which also holds the seat of government, can be considered as the commercial capital.
Figure 1: Map of Tanzania
The climate varies from humid and hot in the lower situated regions to the point of dry heat in the daytime and refreshing coolness at night in the high-lying areas. Because Tanzania is located South of the equator there is no real significant change of seasons. The climate is merely subdivided into one dry period and two rainfall periods.
1.2 Population, Religion, Language
There is a huge ethnic variety among the 46 million inhabitants that presently live in Tanzania. Ninety-nine percent of the mainland population consists of different African-originated groups, up to 130 folks can be counted./ The major ethnic group, the Sukuma, represents almost 13 percent of the total population, the second and third largest groups are the Nyamwezi and the Chagga. Compared to other African countries there are no significant political conflicts between all these ethnic groups, the crucial reason for this probably is that there is none which predominates. The
1.1 Geography
The United Republic of Tanzania is located in the East of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique. It has borders with Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Tanzania contains of 945,087square kilometers, including the islands of Zanzibar, Mafia and Pemba. Thus it is about three times as big as Germany. Tanzania has a very special and unique landscape due to the Kilimanjaro, which is the highest mountain of whole Africa and Lake Victoria, which is the third largest freshwater lake in the world.
Today the official capital of Tanzania is Dodoma, in the very centre of the republic, because legislative offices are l resident here. Dar es Salaam, as the largest city of the country, which also holds the seat of government, can be considered as the commercial capital.
Figure 1: Map of Tanzania
The climate varies from humid and hot in the lower situated regions to the point of dry heat in the daytime and refreshing coolness at night in the high-lying areas. Because Tanzania is located South of the equator there is no real significant change of seasons. The climate is merely subdivided into one dry period and two rainfall periods.
1.2 Population, Religion, Language
There is a huge ethnic variety among the 46 million inhabitants that presently live in Tanzania. Ninety-nine percent of the mainland population consists of different African-originated groups, up to 130 folks can be counted./ The major ethnic group, the Sukuma, represents almost 13 percent of the total population, the second and third largest groups are the Nyamwezi and the Chagga. Compared to other African countries there are no significant political conflicts between all these ethnic groups, the crucial reason for this probably is that there is none which predominates. The