坦桑尼亚联合共和国（斯瓦希里语：Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania）在中国简称为坦国，是一个东非国家，位于赤道以南，本土地处维多利亚湖和印度洋之间，北邻乌干达和肯尼亚，西与刚果（金）、卢旺达和布隆迪交界，南与马拉维和莫桑比克毗连，西南与赞比亚接壤。坦桑尼亚曾是英国殖民地，1964年4月26日独立，1996年首都由达累斯萨拉姆迁往多多马。东非共同体三国肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚和乌干达将于2010年合并成为统一的联邦国家。该联邦将拥有共同的宪法、总统、议会和货币。
The United Republic of Tanzania (pronounced /ˌtænzəˈniːə/; Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.
The United Republic of Tanzania is a unitary republic composed of 26 mikoa (regions). The current head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005. Since 1996, the official capital of Tanzania has been Dodoma, where parliament and some government offices are located. Between independence and 1996 the major coastal city of Dar es Salaam had been the country's political capital. Today Dar es Salaam remains the principal commercial city of Tanzania and the de-facto seat of most government institutions. It is the major seaport for the country and its landlocked neighbours.
The name Tanzania is a portmanteau of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The two states united in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later the same year was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
Years of poorly-implemented "African socialist" policies, including forced relocations to collective farms, left the country as one of the poorest, least developed and most aid-dependent in the world. Tanzania started a process of gradual reforms in the mid-1980s.
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