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Tanzania is a Christian majority nation, with Islam being the largest minority faith in the country. [2] According to a 2020 estimate by Pew research center, Muslims represent 34.1% of the total population. [1] The faith was introduced by merchants visiting the Swahili coast, as it became connected to a larger maritime trade network dominated ...
The 2001 UK census recorded 32,630 Tanzanian-born people in the country. [3] In the 2011 census, 34,798 people born in Tanzania were recorded as living in England, 439 in Wales, [4] 681 in Scotland [5] and 76 in Northern Ireland. [6] These figures do not include British-born people of Tanzanian origin.
Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, with a substantial Muslim minority. Smaller populations of Animists, practitioners of other faiths, and religiously unaffiliated people are also present. [2] [3] Tanzania is a secular state and freedom of religion is enshrined in the country's constitution. Both Christian and Islamic feasts are ...
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. [ 25 ] The Middle East - North Africa ( MENA ) region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [ 26 ] other than Israel .
The population distribution in Tanzania is extremely uneven. Most people live on the northern border or the eastern coast, with much of the remainder of the country being sparsely populated. [1]: 1252 Density varies from 12 per square kilometre (31/sq mi) in the Katavi Region to 3,133 per square kilometre (8,110/sq mi) in Dar es Salaam.
Tanzania, [c] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [d] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
Muslims are bound by Sharia on personal matters, while members of other faiths follow civil law. Muslims are required to follow Sharia in family, property and religious matters. [144] In 1988, the constitution was amended to state that civil courts cannot hear matters that fall within the jurisdiction of Sharia courts. [145]
Among individual countries outside of the UK, the countries of Pakistan; Bangladesh; Somalia; India; Iraq; Turkey; Afghanistan; Iran; Syria; and Italy made up the top ten most common countries of birth for Muslims residing in England and Wales. [81] 59.7% of Muslims identified as either Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Indian, 6.2% were of other Asian ...