Broader Places
Tanzania (149)
Narrower Places
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (22)
Place Type region
Other Place Typesfirst level subdivision
Alternative TermsZanzibar region
Latitude -6.167
Longitude 39.333
Shares name with former sultanate; formerly subdivided into three regions; one of the world's chief sources of cloves; formerly under Arab rulers then dominated by Portuguese, Oman, German East African Company, & British.
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