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Kinshasa, the largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as in Africa, is the nation's financial and economic centre. Lagos, Nigeria is the second largest city in Africa and one of the primary economic hubs for the continent. Cairo, Egypt is the third largest city in Africa and the largest one in the Arab world.
German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
The number of ferries known to be in commercial operation in 2018 was about thirty in Tanzania, five in Uganda, and six in Kenya. The largest ferries for the transport of cargo on Lake Victoria are the train ferries MV Umoja, MV Uhuru, MV Kaawa and MV Pemba engaged in international services between Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Each of them is ...
Kyela Monthly Meeting of Friends (Southern Tanzania) was founded as a worship group when a local man (Barnabas Mwaihojo) read about Quakers on the internet, which led to him setting up meetings in three local villages. These have now grown in number, with nine meetings in the southern region of Tanzania.
Tanzania is: a country; Location: Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Africa East Africa; Time zone: East Africa Time ; Extreme points of Tanzania High: Mount Kilimanjaro 5,892 m (19,331 ft) – highest point in Africa; Low: Indian Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: 3,861 km Kenya 769 km Mozambique 756 km Malawi 475 km
Bukoba is a city with a population of 144,938 (2022 census), [2] situated in the northwest of Tanzania on the south-western shores of Lake Victoria.It is the capital of the Kagera region, and the administrative seat for Bukoba Urban District.
This variety is a reflection of the country's diverse population that includes most major ethnoracial and linguistic groups found in Africa (see Languages of Africa). Languages spoken locally belong to three broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch), Nilo-Saharan (Nilotic branch) and Afroasiatic .
They knew that birds did not fly on the mountain and local travellers would become sick if they ventured too high - we now understand this to be altitude sickness. In the 1880s, the mountain became a part of German East Africa and was called Kilima-Ndscharo in German following the Kiswahili name components. [ 11 ]