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Tanzania

  • Population: 38.4 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Dodoma
  • Area: 945,087 sq km (364,900 sq miles)
  • Major languages: English, Swahili
  • Major religions: Christianity, Islam
  • Life expectancy: 46 years (men), 46 years (women) (UN)
  • Monetary unit: 1 Tanzanian shilling = 100 cents

Road Junky has 3 Tanzania articles. Scroll down to view.

Ramadan Ends on Zanzibar

The radio, wired up to a car battery, crackles into life in the near darkness outside the first house of Kizimbani village, where a small crowd has gathered to listen ...

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Zanzibar - Not Quite the Beach

Sitting in the beach hut at our hostel on the Zanzibar coast, we can see two desert islands shimmering on the horizon. On one of our last afternoons of our ...

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Selous - Sand Rivers

In the winter of 1980, Peter Matthiessen, the celebrated American writer, explorer and naturalist, set off on an extended foot safari into the remote southern regions of the Selous Game ...

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