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tanzania

UK/ˌtæn.zəˈniːə/US/ˌtæn.zəˈni.ə/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,558 of 15,258mostly written

Tanzania is the East African country of Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti. Travel to Tanzania, northern Tanzania, the government of Tanzania.

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. The name is a blend: Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined in 1964 and took syllables from each. Swahili is the national language and unites well over a hundred local ones.

Definitions of tanzania

  1. 1nountanzaniaA country in East Africa.B1+

    “Tanzania's Serengeti is famous for the great migration of wildebeest.”

tanzania is a country.

Where it comes from

Tanzania {{blend|en|Tanganyika|

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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