Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Dodoma
- Region
- Africa, Eastern Africa
- Population
- 70,545,865 (2025)
- Area
- 945,087 km²
- Currency
- Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
- Languages
- Swahili (macrolanguage), English, Arabic
- Calling code
- +255
- Internet domain
- .tz
- ISO codes
- TZ, TZA, 834
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Tanzania covers about 945,087 square kilometres. By area it ranks 32nd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Egypt and a little larger than Nigeria. It shares a land border with 8 neighbours: Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia. Its centre lies at about 6° south, 35° east, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
BurundiGitega
DR CongoKinshasa
KenyaNairobi
MalawiLilongwe
MozambiqueMaputo
RwandaKigali
UgandaKampala
ZambiaLusaka
People
About 70.5 million people live in Tanzania (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 21st most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.86 percent of the world's people. On average there are 75 people to each square kilometre. About 37 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 67 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Swahili (macrolanguage), English, Arabic. A person from Tanzania is called Tanzanian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Tanzanian shilling (code TZS, symbol Sh). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 90.1 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,319 for each person (2025).
Time
Tanzania uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Africa/Dar es Salaam). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Dar es Salaam | 5,383,728 |
| Mwanza | 1,104,521 |
| Dodoma | 765,179 |
| Zanzibar | 709,809 |
| Arusha | 617,631 |
| Mbeya | 541,603 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.