Zanzibar
Zanzibar 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 off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Koani
Koani is a city located on the Tanzanian island of Unguja. Koani is situated 6 km northwest of Zanzibar.Mwera
Mwera is a village in Zanzibar east of Zanzibar City on the road to the western coast of the island. Mwera is situated 9 km west of Zanzibar.Zanzibar
- Type: Region with 1,500,000 residents
- Description: semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
- Categories: federated state and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.16667° or 6° 10' southLongitude
39.33333° or 39° 20' eastPopulation
1,500,000Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)Open Location Code
6G5XR8MM+88GeoNames ID
148729Wikidata ID
Q1774Zanzibar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Zengibar
- Afrikaans: Zanzibar
- Albanian: Zanzibari
- Amharic: ዛንዚባር
- Angika: जांजीबार
- Arabic: Zanzibar
- Arabic: زنجبار
- Arabic: زنزيبار
- Armenian: Զանզիբար
- Asturian: Zanzíbar
- Azerbaijani: Zənzibar
- Balinese: Zanzibar
- Bashkir: Занзибар
- Basque: Zanzibar
- Belarusian: Занзыбар
- Belarusian: Занзібар
- Bengali: জাঞ্জিবার
- Bosnian: Zanzibar
- Breton: Zanzibar
- Bulgarian: Занзибар
- Burmese: ဇန်ဇိဗာကျွန်း
- Catalan: Zanzíbar
- Central Kurdish: زەنگبار
- Chinese: 桑給巴爾
- Chinese: 桑给巴尔
- Croatian: Zanzibar
- Czech: Zanzibar
- Danish: Zanzibar
- Dutch: Unguja
- Dutch: Zanzibar
- Egyptian Arabic: زنجبار
- English: Menuthias
- English: Zanzibar Islands
- Esperanto: Insularo de Zanzibaro
- Esperanto: Zanzibaro
- Estonian: Sansibar
- Faroese: Sansibar
- Finnish: Sansibar
- French: Gouvernement révolutionnaire de Zanzibar
- French: Zanzibar
- Gagauz: Zanzibar
- Galician: Zanzíbar
- Georgian: ზანზიბარი
- German: Sansibar
- Greek: Ζανζιβάρη
- Gujarati: ઝાંઝીબાર
- Hausa: Zanzibar
- Hebrew: זנזיבר
- Hindi: जंजीबार
- Hindi: ज़ांज़ीबार
- Hungarian: Zanzibár
- Icelandic: Sansibar
- Ido: Zanzibar
- Indonesian: Kepulauan Zanzibar
- Interlingue: Zanzibar
- Italian: Zanzibar
- Japanese: ザンジバル
- Javanese: Zanzibar
- Kalaallisut: Zanzibar
- Kannada: ಜಾಂಜಿಬಾರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Zengibar
- Kazakh: Занзибар
- Kirghiz: Занзибар
- Korean: 잔지바르
- Kurdish: Zanzîbar
- Latin: Zanzibar
- Latvian: Zanzibāra
- Lithuanian: Zanzibaras
- Macedonian: Занзибар
- Malay: Zanzibar
- Maori: Zanzibar
- Marathi: झांझिबार
- Mazanderani: زنگبار
- Norwegian: Zanzibar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Zanzibar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Zanzibar
- Occitan (post 1500): Zanzibar (Tanzania)
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Menuþias
- Panjabi: ਜਾਂਜੀਬਾਰ
- Panjabi: ਜੰਜੀਬਾਰ
- Papiamento: Zanzibar
- Persian: زنگبار
- Polish: Zanzibar
- Portuguese: Zanzibar
- Romanian: Zanzibar
- Russian: Занзибар
- Russian: Народная Республика Занзибар
- Scots: Zanzibar
- Scottish Gaelic: Zanzibar
- Serbian: Zanzibar
- Serbian: Занзибар
- Serbo-Croatian: Zanzibar
- Shona: Zanzibhari
- Sindhi: زنجبار
- Sinhala: සන්සිබාර්
- Slovak: Zanzibar
- Slovenian: Zanzibar
- Spanish: Zanzibar
- Spanish: Zanzíbar
- Swahili: Jamhuri ya Watu wa Zanzibar
- Swedish: Zanzibar
- Tagalog: Zanzibar
- Tajik: Занзибар
- Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Мардумии Занзибар
- Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Халқии Занзибар
- Tamil: சன்சிபார்
- Tamil: சன்னஜிப்பர்
- Tamil: சான்சிபார்
- Telugu: జాంజీబార్
- Thai: แซนซิบาร์
- Turkish: Zangibar
- Turkish: Zanzibar
- Tyap: Za̱nziba
- Ukrainian: Занзібар
- Urdu: زنجبار
- Uzbek: Zanjibar
- Venetian: Zanzibar
- Vietnamese: Zanzibar
- Võro: Sansibar
- Waray (Philippines): Zanzibar
- Welsh: Sansibar
- Western Frisian: Sansibar
- Western Panjabi: زنجبار
- Wu Chinese: 桑给巴尔
- Yoruba: Zanzibar
- Yue Chinese: 桑給巴爾
- Zulu: Zanzibar
Other Places Named Zanzibar
Localities in the Area
- Dunga/TunguuLocality
- NdijaniLocality
- BinguniLocality
- ChanganiLocality
Landmarks in the Area
- UngujaIsland
- Dunga PalaceRuin, 2½ km northwest
- Masingini RidgeRidge, 10 km west
- Zanzibar ParkPark, 11 km west
- Bird IslandIsland, 11 km east
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