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There are more than 100 distinct ethnic groups and tribes in Tanzania, not including ethnic groups that reside in Tanzania as refugees from conflicts in nearby countries. These ethnic groups are of Bantu origin, with large Nilotic-speaking , moderate indigenous, and small non-African minorities.
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.
also: Countries: Tanzania: People: Subcategories. This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. ... Wikipedia categories named after Tanzanian ...
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Tanzania" ... Kami people; Kara people (Tanzania) Kerewe people; Kimbu people; Kinga people; Kisankasa people; Kisi people; Koningo;
Travel taught them that others called them Nyamwezi, and almost all men accepted the name given to them by the coastal people indicating that the Nyamwezi came from the west. A century later, their land is still called "Greater Unyamwezi", about 35,000 square miles (91,000 km 2) of rolling land at an elevation of about 4,000 feet (1,200 m).
Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania—Swahili and English. [ 6 ] The Maasai population has been reported as numbering 1,189,522 in Kenya in the 2019 census, [ 1 ] compared to 377,089 in the 1989 census, though many Maasai view the census as government meddling and ...
The Ha people call the lake bordering the area they live in as Buha, and the region consists of grasslands and open woodlands. [1] The Ha people share the northwestern part of Tanzania with the Sukuma, the Haya, the Zinza, the Hangaza and the Subi ethnic groups.