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Dodoma (lit. 'It has sunk' in Gogo), officially Dodoma City (Jiji Kuu la Dodoma, in Swahili), is the capital of Tanzania [3] and the administrative capital of both Dodoma Municipal Council and the entire Dodoma Region, with a population of 765,179. [4][3] In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that Tanzania 's federal capital would be ...
The capital of the country and economic centre of Tanzania, Dodoma (population 410,956) [214] is located in central Tanzania, and hosts the National Assembly. At the time of the foundation of the United Republic of Tanzania in 1964, the child mortality rate was 335 deaths per 1,000 live births.
It was the main administrative and commercial center of German East Africa, Tanganyika, and Tanzania. The decision was made in 1974 to move the capital to Dodoma which was officially completed in 1996. [3] Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's most prominent city for arts, fashion, media, film, television, and finance.
Map of Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, largest city in Tanzania. Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city. Dodoma, capital city of Tanzania. Zanzibar City. This is a list of cities, municipalities, and towns in Tanzania.
The centre of Tanzania is a large plateau, which is part of the East African Plateau. The southern half of this plateau is grassland within the Eastern miombo woodlands ecoregion, the majority of which is covered by the huge Selous National Park. Further north the plateau is arable land and includes the national capital, Dodoma.
History of Tanzania. The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when, under the League of Nations, it ...
Outline of Tanzania. Tanzania – sovereign country located in East Africa. [ 1] Tanzania borders Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south. To the east it borders the Indian Ocean .
Current Map of the Regions of Tanzania. In 1975, Tanzania had 25 regions. In the 1970s, the name of the Ziwa Magharibi Region (West Lake Region) changed to Kagera Region. In 2002, Manyara Region was created out of part of Arusha Region. [1] In 2012, four regions were created: Geita, Katavi, Njombe, and Simiyu. [2]