INFORMATIONS MAPS
| 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 : 179400
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Tanga is the most important Tanzanian port after Dar, and lies just south of the Kenyan border. Like Bagamoyo, it has an air of fading decadence about it, and would not feature in any travel guide were it not for the superb beaches which sprawl to the south of the town, and the vibrant night life that transforms the town after dark. It was here that a German expeditionary force led by Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck (see Selous section) defeated a joint British and Indian landing force in 1914, aided and abetted by millions of angry bees whose hives had been destroyed by gunfire. The tragic, though comical consequences of that battle shaped the opening chapter of William Boyd’s contemporary novel, ‘An Ice Cream War’.
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