Tanzania
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- TZ
- ISO alpha-3
- TZA
- ISO numeric
- 834
- FIPS 10-4
- TZ
- GeoNames ID
- 149590
Key facts
- Capital
- Dodoma
- Area
- 945,087 km²
- Population
- 56,318,348
- Currency
- Shilling (TZS)
- Calling code
- +255
- Top-level domain
- .tz
- Official languages
- sw-TZ,en,ar
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -6
- Longitude
- 35
- Min latitude
- -11.73127248199998
- Min longitude
- 29.32103153500009
- Max latitude
- -0.9858301799998799
- Max longitude
- 40.44939212300005
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/TZ?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 945087,
"capital": "Dodoma",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "TZS",
"iso3_code": "TZA",
"iso_code": "TZ",
"name": "Tanzania",
"population": 56318348
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/TZ/regions/v1/cities?country=TZ/v1/postal-codes?country=TZ/v1/timezones?country=TZ
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- تنزانيا
- Chinese
- 坦桑尼亚
- English
- Tanzania
- French
- Tanzanie
- German
- Tansania
- Hindi
- तंजा़निया
- Italian
- Tanzania
- Japanese
- タンザニア
- Korean
- 탄자니아
- Portuguese
- Tanzânia
- Russian
- Танзания
- Spanish
- Tanzania
- Total language variants
- 138
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Dar_es_Salaam | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Dar es Salaam Region
- Mwanza Region
- Mbeya Region
- Tabora Region
- Morogoro Region
- Kagera Region
- Kigoma Region
- Dodoma Region
- Tanga Region
- Mara Region
- Geita Region
- Arusha Region
- Kilimanjaro Region
- Simiyu Region
- Shinyanga Region
- Singida Region
- Mtwara Region
- Ruvuma Region
- Songwe
- Manyara Region
- Coast Region
- Rukwa Region
- Iringa Region
- Lindi Region
24 of 31 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Dar es Salaam | 5,383,728 |
| Mwanza | 1,104,521 |
| Dodoma | 765,179 |
| Zanzibar | 709,809 |
| Arusha | 617,631 |
| Mbeya | 541,603 |
| Morogoro | 471,409 |
| Kahama | 453,654 |
| Tanga | 393,429 |
| Geita | 318,006 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 7,758
- First-level regions
- 31
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 138
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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