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(Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania). East African state (945,090 km²). Capital: Dodoma. Administrative division: regions (26). Population: 40,800,000 residents (2008 estimate). Language: English and Swahili (official). Religion: Christians 44%, Muslims 37%, animists / traditional beliefs 19%. Currency unit: Tanzanian shilling (100 cents). Human Development Index: 0.503 (152nd place). Borders: Uganda and Kenya (N), Indian Ocean (E), Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia (S), Democratic Republic of Congo (W), Burundi and Rwanda (NW). Member of: Commonwealth, EAC, UN, SADC, UA and WTO, EU associate. According to COUNTRYAAH, Tanzania is a nation in Eastern Africa, the capital city of which is DDodoma. The latest population of Tanzania is 59,734,229. REMZFAMILY: Lists and descriptions of main religions and beliefs in Tanzania, including religion demographics and statistics on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.
CLIMATE
The climate of Tanzania is tropical despite the country, placed between 1º and 11º lat. Yes, it is located in the equatorial belt: if the extreme northern section is excluded, a climate with alternating seasons predominates everywhere, regulated by trade winds and monsoons coming from the Indian Ocean. The trade winds are basically responsible for the rainy season of the southern winter (with maximum rainfall between March and May), while the monsoons are responsible for a second rainy season between October and December. The intermediate seasons are dry or with less rainfall, between June and September and between January and February. This last period also records the maximum thermal values, which obviously vary passing from the coast to the higher inland areas, mitigated by the altitude (in Dar es Salaam the average in January is 28 ºC while in Tabora, located at 1265 m, it is of 22 ºC); the annual temperature variations are quite weak over most of the country (in the aforementioned localities the averages in July, in the austral winter, are 23 ºC and 21 ºC), while on the plateau there can be a temperature difference of up to 10 ºC between day and night. Temperatures are naturally linked to the percentages of atmospheric humidity, which can be 70-75% at the foot of the hills and which makes the air suffocating, while it is attenuated on the internal plateaus (55-60%), so much so that the relatively dry and often clear skies make these other lands one of the healthiest in Africa. The coast records abundant rainfall, which is around 1100 mm per year in Dar es Salaam (1500 mm in Zanzibar); on the plateaus the amount of precipitation is very variable depending on the altitude and exposure. Thus there are very clear contrasts between the highest mountain slopes and the best exposed to the E and the underlying depressions: typical is the case of the slopes of Kilimanjaro.