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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 3,861 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| varies from tropical along coast to temperate in highlands .
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| Area Total :
| 945,087 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 886,037 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 59,050 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than twice the size of California .
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| Coast Line :
| 1,424 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 3,690 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 88,200 km .
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| Waterways :
| Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; rivers not navigable (2004) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Kilwa Masoko, Lindi, Mtwara, Mwanza, Pangani, Tanga, Wete, Zanzibar .
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Population on 01-Aug-02 : 270485
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Arusha is the capital of the Arusha Region, located in the north of Tanzania. It has a population of 270,485 (2002 census}. This city is located on a plateau in the Great Rift Valley amidst the Serengeti Plain, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park.
Official documents ceding independence to Tanzania were signed by the United Kingdom at Arusha in 1961.
The Arusha Declarations for Self Reliance in Tanzania were signed in 1964 in Arusha.
The Arusha Accords were signed at Arusha on August 4, 1993 by representatives of competing factions in the Rwandan civil war.
In 1995 the UN security council decided that Arusha should host the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The establishment of the tribunal with its employees has influenced the local economy of Arusha. The tribunal is expected to end its normal work in 2008 with two more subseqent years for appeals handling.
Arusha was elevated to city status in 2005.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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