Map of Tanzania

Tanzania is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 6.0° S, 35.0° E. It shares land borders with 8 countries — Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Tanzania is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Tanzania shares land frontiers with the following 8 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Tanzania covers about 947,303 km² (365,756 sq mi). That makes it the 30th-largest country in the world by area and the 13th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 41 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 68,153,004, the 21st-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 4.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Tanzania has an average population density of about 72 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 5th by population and 13th by area.

The seat of government is Dodoma, and the official currency is the Tanzanian shilling (TZS, Sh), and the main official languages are English and Swahili. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Tanzania carries the ISO country codes TZ and TZA, dials on the international calling code +255 and uses the .tz internet domain.

Tanzania shares its land borders with 8 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Kenya (capital Nairobi, about 53,330,978 people), Uganda (capital Kampala, about 45,905,417 people), Mozambique (capital Maputo, about 34,090,466 people), Malawi (capital Lilongwe, about 20,734,262 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people), Rwanda (capital Kigali, about 14,104,969 people) and Burundi (capital Gitega, about 12,332,788 people).

By area, Tanzania is larger than 7 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 6.0° S, 35.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Tanzania within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Dodoma. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Tanzania lies about 666 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Tanzania keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Tanzanian shilling (TZS, Sh).

The official languages are English and Swahili, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +255 and websites commonly use the .tz internet domain.

In short, Tanzania is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 8 countries. Its capital is Dodoma. Tanzania has a population of about 68,153,004 and covers around 947,303 km² (365,756 sq mi), ranking it 21st in the world by population and 30th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Tanzania.

The flag of Tanzania features a yellow-edged black diagonal band that extends from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. Above and beneath this band are a green and light blue triangle respectively.

The flag of Tanzania is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.