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A large segment of Zanzibar export earnings comes from cloves. The greatest concentration of clove trees in Zanzibar is found on Pemba (3.5 million trees), as growing conditions on the island are superior to those on Unguja island. Clove trees grow to a height of approximately 10 to 15 metres and can be harvested for sometimes over 50 years.
The Zanzibar Archipelago (Funguvisiwa la Zanzibar, in Swahili, Arabic: أرخبيل زنجبار) is a group of islands off the coast of mainland Tanzania in the sea of Zanj. The archipelago is also known as the Spice Islands. There are three main islands with permanent human settlements, Zanzibar island, Pemba island, and Mafia island.
Zanzibar [a] is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of Africa, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
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Unguja (also referred to as "Zanzibar Island" or simply "Zanzibar", in Ancient Greek: Μενουθιάς, romanized: Menuthias – as mentioned in The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea) is the largest and most populated island of the Zanzibar archipelago, in Tanzania.
Map of Zanzibar. The World Wildlife Fund divides the coastal forests into two ecoregions: the Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic, which extends from southern Somalia through coastal Kenya to southern Tanzania, and includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, and the Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic, which extends from southern Tanzania along the Mozambique coast ...
Map of the Zanzibar Archipelago including Njao Island Njao Island is located off the northwest coast of Pemba Island , one of the two main islands of Tanzania 's Zanzibar Archipelago . Together with the larger Fundo Island , which lies immediately to the south, it forms a natural barrier and breakwater for the harbour of the town of Wete ...
Pemba South Region or South Pemba Region (Mkoa wa Pemba Kusini in Swahili) is one of the 31 regions of Tanzania, [3] covering an area of 332 km 2 (128 sq mi). [4] The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Grenada. [5] and the administrative region is located entirely on Pemba island.