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The country lacks a clear dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed by the Wanyakyusa and the Chagga. Unlike its neighbouring countries, Tanzania has not experienced large-scale ethnic conflicts, a fact attributed to the unifying ...
Afrikaans; العربية; تۆرکجه; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
The Bantu Sukuma are Tanzania's largest ethnic group. mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African. Around 100,000 people living in Tanzania are from Europe or Asia.
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. ... Ethnic groups by continent and country (4 C) ... Ethnic groups in Tanzania (26 C, 141 P)
The country has not experienced major internal strife since independence and is seen as one of the safest and most politically stable on the continent. [21] Tanzania's population comprises about 120 ethnic, [22] linguistic, and religious groups. Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, with substantial Muslim and Animist minorities. [23]
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).