Tanzania is one of the larger countries in Africa with a million square kilometers and 52 million people. It borders on eight other counties as well as the Indian Ocean.
It is one of the few countries in the area which has not experienced a civil war.
It was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919, when, under the League of Nations, it became a British mandate. It served as a military outpost during World War II, providing financial help, munitions, and soldiers. In 1947, Tanganyika became a United Nations Trust Territory
under British administration, a status it kept until its independence
in 1961. Zanzibar was settled as a trading hub, subsequently controlled
by the Portuguese, the Sultanate of Oman, and then as a British protectorate by the end of the nineteenth century.
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