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  2. Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.

  3. Zanzibar Archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The Zanzibar Archipelago ( Funguvisiwa la Zanzibar, in Swahili, Arabic: أرخبيل زنجبار) are a group of islands off the coast of mainland Tanzania in the sea of Zanj. The archipelago is also known as the Spice Islands. There are four main islands, three primary islands with permanent human populations, a fourth coral island that ...

  4. History of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    History of Tanzania. People have lived in Zanzibar for 20,000 years. [citation needed] The earliest written accounts of Zanzibar began when the islands became a base for traders voyaging between the African Great Lakes, the Somali Peninsula, the Arabian peninsula, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent. Unguja offered a protected and defensible ...

  5. Stone Town - Wikipedia

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    Stone Town is located on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Former capital of the Zanzibar Sultanate , and flourishing centre of the spice trade as well as the Indian Ocean slave trade in the 19th century, it retained its importance as the main city of Zanzibar during the period of the British protectorate ...

  6. Unguja - Wikipedia

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    Unguja is a hilly island, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) long (north-south) and 30 kilometres (19 miles) wide (east-west) at its widest, with an overall area of about 1,666 square kilometres (643 square miles). [1] It is located in the northern half of the Zanzibar Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean, about 59 kilometres (37 mi) south of the ...

  7. Wildlife of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    Papilio demodocus in Zanzibar, Nungwi Widespread species of the Danaid eggfly (Hypolimnas misippus), nymphalid butterfly in Nungwi. The islands of Zanzibar have a large number of butterflies. Pete village, has the Zanzibar Butterfly Centre (ZBC), which was established in 2008. At this centre, local butter fly species are farmed for which ...

  8. Tourism in Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    The coastline of Zanzibar. Tourism in Zanzibar includes the tourism industry and its effects on the islands of Unguja (known internationally as Zanzibar) and Pemba in Zanzibar a semi-autonomous region in the United Republic of Tanzania. [1] Tourism is the top income generator for the islands, outpacing even the lucrative agricultural export ...

  9. Pemba Island - Wikipedia

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    The main islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago: Unguja (left) and Pemba (right) With a land area of 988 square kilometres (381 sq mi) it is situated about 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the north of Unguja, the largest island of the archipelago. In 1964, Zanzibar was united with the former colony of Tanganyika to form Tanzania.

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