Get to know Tanzania! Get the facts about its land, products and culture.

Official name: United Republic of Tanzania

Size: 364,394 square miles (943,776 square kilometers); about twice the size of California

Population: 37,445,392 as of July 2006

Population Under Age 14: 43.7%

Capital: Dar es Salaam

Official Language: Swahili and English

Literacy Rate(businesses): 78.2%

Climate: Ranging from tropical to chilly

Products: Coffee, cotton, tobacco, tea, cloves, cashew nuts, sugarcane, coconuts, diamonds, gold, iron, wood products, fertilizer, salt

Currency: Tanzanian shilling

Religion: Native beliefs = 35%, Muslim = 35%, Christian = 30%

Did You Know: The red colobus monkey is found only in Zanzibar. It can fly 25 feet through the air!

Did you know: In 1866, missionary and explorer David Livingstone set out to find the source of the Nile River and disappeared. Five years later, reporter Henry Morton Stanley found Livingstone living near Lake Tanganyika, and greeted him by saying, ''Dr. Livingstone, I presume.''