Zanzibar
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, consisting of Zanzibar Island, Pemba Island, and many smaller islands. Zanzibar island is approximately 90 km long and 30 km wide. Beach at Zanzibar…Photo: Yoni Lerner, CC BY 2.0.
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Stone Town
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Stone Town is the main city on Zanzibar. It is a city of prominent historical and artistic importance in East Africa.
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Nungwi
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Nungwi, or Ras Nungwi, is a large village located in the far northern end of the island of Zanzibar.
Jambiani
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Jambiani is a group of villages on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.
Matemwe
Matemwe is a village located in Kaskazini A District of Unguja North Region on the north-eastern coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, between Mwangaseni and Kigomani.Zanzibar
- Type: Island with 1,890,000 residents
- Description: archipelago in Tanzania
- Category: island group
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-5.6433° or 5° 38' 36" southLongitude of centre
39.5453° or 39° 32' 43" eastPopulation
1,890,000GeoNames ID
8426441Wikidata ID
Q706541Zanzibar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: أرخبيل زنجبار
- Armenian: Զանզիբար
- Asturian: Archipiélagu de Zanzíbar
- Bashkir: Занзибар (архипелаг)
- Bashkir: Занзибар
- Basque: Zanzibar uhartedia
- Belarusian: Занзыбар
- Bengali: জাঞ্জিবার দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
- Bengali: মশলা দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
- Bulgarian: Занзибарски архипелаг
- Catalan: Arxipèlag de Zanzíbar
- Catalan: Zanzibar
- Catalan: arxipèlag de Zanzibar
- Cebuano: Zanzibar Archipelago
- Chinese: 桑給巴爾群島
- Chinese: 桑给巴尔群岛
- Croatian: Zanzibarski arhipelag
- Croatian: arhipelag Zanzibar
- Czech: Zanzibarské souostroví
- Dutch: Zanzibar
- Dutch: Zanzibararchipel
- English: Spice Islands
- English: Zanzibar Archipelago
- Esperanto: Zanzibara Insularo
- Finnish: Sansibarin saaristo
- French: Zanzibar
- Galician: Arquipélago de Zanzíbar
- Georgian: ზანზიბარის არქიპელაგი
- German: Gewürzinseln
- German: Sansibar
- German: Sansibar-Archipel
- German: Spice Islands
- German: Zansibar
- Hebrew: זנזיבר
- Indonesian: Kepulauan Zanzibar (Tanzania)
- Italian: Arcipelago di Zanzibar
- Japanese: ザンジバル諸島
- Korean: 잔지바르 제도
- Latin: Zanzibara
- Latin: archipelagus Zanzibarae
- Lithuanian: Kvapiosios salos
- Lithuanian: Prieskonių salos
- Lithuanian: Zanzibaro archipelagas
- Lithuanian: Zanzibaro salynas
- Malagasy: Zanzibar
- Malay: Kepulauan Zanzibar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Zanzibararkipelet
- Occitan (post 1500): Zanzibar
- Polish: Archipelag Zanzibaru
- Polish: Zanzibar
- Portuguese: Arquipélago de Zanzibar
- Russian: Занзибар (архипелаг)
- Russian: Занзибар (группа островов)
- Russian: Занзибар (острова)
- Russian: Занзибар
- Serbian: Занзибарски архипелаг
- Shona: Gururundu re Zanzibhari
- Slovenian: Zanzibarsko otočje
- Spanish: Archipielago de Zanzibar
- Spanish: Archipiélago de Zanzíbar
- Swahili: Funguvisiwa la Zanzibar
- Swedish: Zanzibararkipelagen
- Tamil: சான்சிபார் தீவுக்கூட்டம்
- Ukrainian: Занзібар
- Urdu: مجمع الجزائر زنجبار
- Urdu: مجموعہ الجزائر زنجبار
- Western Frisian: Sansibareilannen
- Western Frisian: Sânsibareilannen
- Western Mari: Занзибар
- Western Panjabi: مجموعہ الجزائر زنجبار
- Wu Chinese: 桑给巴尔群岛
- Yue Chinese: 桑給巴爾群島
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Zanzibar. Photo: Yoni Lerner, CC BY 2.0.