{"id":16831,"date":"2026-07-26T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16831"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:58:50","slug":"tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tanzania Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, India and Tanzania have reviewed bilateral ties across diverse sectors, including trade and investment, development partnership, defence and security cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tanzania<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an <\/span><b>East African country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated <\/span><b>just south of the Equator.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It shares borders with eight countries: <\/span><b>Kenya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Ugand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>a<\/strong> to the north, <\/span><b>Rwanda, Burundi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the west, and <\/span><b>Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the south.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Maritime Border:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The eastern border of Tanzania meets the <\/span><b>Indian Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dar es Salaam (administrative captial), Dodoma (legislative capital).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Tanzania<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate type:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tropical, with a long dry season and two rainy seasons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major lakes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lake Victoria (the world\u2019s second-largest freshwater lake, shared with Uganda and Kenya) in the north<\/span><b>, Lake Tanganyika<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the west, and <\/span><b>Lake Nyasa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the southwest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Peak:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-kilimanjaro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Mount Kilimanjaro<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Great Ruaha, Rufiji, and Kagera rivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Islands:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It includes <\/span><b>Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all located off the eastern coast in the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">very rich in minerals such as gold, diamond, iron, coal, nickel, tanzanite, uranium and natural gas.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/india-and-tanzania-review-bilateral-ties-across-diverse-sectors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News On Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania is an East African country on the Indian Ocean, bordered by eight nations, with Dodoma as the capital and Dar es Salaam as its main city. 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