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Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (Swahili)  created by  irasocol

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Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (Swahili)

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Official – Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (Kiswahili) (United Republic of Tanzania) (Tahn-za-NEE-ya)
Other – Tanzania (a combination of Tanganyka and Zanzibar created when those nations joined in 1964)
Citizens – Tanzanians
Capital – Dodoma (Dar Es Salaam, the capital until 1996, retains many official functions)
Languages – Kiswahili (de facto official), Khoisan, English often understood

Relation to English – Zanzibar was a British Crown Colony, Tanganyka was a British League of Nations/UN Mandate colony after being taken from the German Empire at the end of the Great War in 1919.

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