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Fun fact 2 about Tanzania

A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum
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The mint in Kilwa struck coins which record information about local sultans in rhyming couplets, something which has no parallel in earlier Islamic coinage.

Tanzania
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Tanzania

Population
70.5M
Area
945,087 km²
Capital
Dodoma
Continent
Africa
21st most populous country in the world

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Photo: Ali A. Fazal · CC BY-SA 3.0