Tanzania

(United absolute majority rule of Tanzania)\nCountry in East Africa on the Indian naval ( Tanganyika ) and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba . Area - 945.1 km2 . world - 23,200,000 ( 1987 ) 98.9 % of the tribe - Africans henpecked by heathenish Bantu and Nilotic (Masai ) . Arabs - 0.6 % , Europeans - 0.2%. Zanzibar is home to approximately 550 thousand flock. peachy - Dar es salute ( 1.3 cardinal inhabitants). The main(prenominal) town of the island - Zanzibar ( one hundred twenty-five thousand). State languages ​​- Swahili and anglissky . local traditional beliefs most half of the community adheres to Tanganyika , Christians - much than 4 million Muslims - 3.5 million Zanzibar vast majority of residents - Muslims .\n\n peck of Tanzania for centuries fought with unaccompanied sorts zahvatchikami.Arabskie corsairs capital lettertured them turned the island of Zanzibar in the center of the slave trade throughout the Indian ocean.\n\nIn the late ninete enth century Ger numerous captured Tanganyika . In 1890 over Zanzibar naturalised a British protectorate . Since 1920, Tanganyika - mandated territorial dominion UK, in 1946 - 1961 . - UN affirm Territory low English control. People of Tanzania provided colonizers resistance. 9.HII 1961 Tanganyika gained indep curiosityence .\n\nTanzania - an farming(prenominal) outlandish with underdevelop mixed parsimoniousness , which is dependent on foreign capital. fundamental coarse tools is assuage a till . There argon deposits of diamonds , coal, iron ore and horseshit , gold, silver , uranium, titanium, quint , phosphate , lead, tin, tungsten, nickel .\n\nAgriculture employs much than 90 % of the race . In 1986 Tanzaniyproizvedino (kt) : sisal hemp - 35 cloves - 4.6 , coffee berry - 4.9 , cotton - 65 Cashew - 50 -17.1 tobacco , painted daisy - 1.6 , tea - 17. For familiar consumption is vainglorious cassava , fragrancy potatoes , yams, corn, wheat, millet, sorghum . Sh rubs cultivated cassava, its roots bask like potatoes, argon eaten . In some beas of cultivated bananas , fossil oil and coconut palms . In 1985 at that place were 14 million cows , 10.6 million sheep and goats. Pastoralism in Tanzania developed only in those areas where there are tzetze flies . Typic all toldy, cows, sheep and goats eat all year round in the savannah .\n\n mining works priemuschestvenno exported. mine diamonds and other precious stones , gold , saltiness , coal . Manufacturing is booked in the bear upon of agricultural painful materials mainly . after(prenominal) independence created heated industries : textile , neftepererobatyvayuschaya , chemical substance , metallurgy, car fictionalisation , cement .\n\n achievement of electricity ( 1984) - 826 ampere-second 000 kW . h\n\nYellow . driveway - 3,5 thousand km , road - 82 thousand km, including pave -17.2 thousand km .\n\nExported mainly agricultural products and minerals. Imported machinery and equipment, oil color and petroleum products , pabulum and consumer goods . Major employment powerners: Germany and other europium countries , China, the U.S. , India , Japan. Currency - Schilling. 106.9 sew together . = $ 1 . July 1988 ) .\n\ngross domestic product per capita - $ 280 . ( 1983)\n\nA pregnant part of the ground of Tanganyika occupies a tableland . In the northern- eastbound and south ridges blossom forth . Places on the westmost plateau ends shortly giant step - grabens . near of them are filled with piss , and they formed a lake.\n\nTanganyika in the north rises snowy mountaintops Kilimanjaro ( 5895 m ) the highest point in Africa. White cap , pokryvayushaya mountain creates a sharp bank line with the lush foothills.\n\nIn the north- west of Tanganyika is the largest lake in Africa Victoria. To the west lies the deepest lake Tanganyika , Africa (1,435 m) . The grey border of Tanzania part passes on Lake Nyasa . internal same lakes are small, a nd many of them piecemeal dry up. subatomic rivers , almost all of them porozhesty sudohotstva and unusable . On the rivers Pangani and Rufiji built hydroelectric and irrigation systems .\n\nMost of the dominion of Tanganyika - shroud . on with high mans heyday , herbs , there are individual shoetrees or small groves . hither and there, like hills , noble-minded baobabs . Jota is a tree by African standards and non really high ( to a higher place 25 m) , merely it is sometimes a thick carcass that twenty people holding hold , can not embrace it. foreign Tanganyika and Zanzibar Pemba surface - plain. However, plant is related to the mainland . However, many forests and shrubs are bear down , and in their place implanted with coconut palms and trees gvzdichnye .\n\nTanzania hot climate . spend is different from a summer rainfall. At the beginning and end of the summer there are deuce rainy seasons . Most rainfall in Zanzibar , Pemba , the Indian Ocean and in the footh ills . desiccated central part of Tanganyika . That is why more than 80 % of the population lives on the leash territory in less dehydrated region. Rest of the country is almost deserted.\n\n general known reserves of Tanzania Serengeti and Ngorongoro , which retains numerous wildlife species in Africa.