location: EAST AFRICA / bordering Uganda, Lake Victoria, Kenya, Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Congo-Kinshasa (across from Lake Tanganyika), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda

capital: Dodoma, population 0.3 million, but the seat of government, as well as the economic and former political capital is Dar es Salaam, population 2.5 million (6% of the total).

population: 44 million

languages: Swahili, English

religion: Sunni Moslem, Christian

currency: Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)