Tanzania country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: June 4, 2008

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Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. (Source: Photograph by John Morrison)
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Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. (Source: Photograph by John Morrison)

  1. General overview
  2. Water in Tanzania
  3. Energy in Southern Africa
  4. Human Development Index
  5. National parks and preserves:
    1. Kilimanjaro National Park
    2. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  6. Ecoregions:
    1. Albertine Rift montane forests
    2. Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
    3. East African halophytics
    4. East African montane forests
    5. Eastern Arc forests
    6. Eastern Miombo woodlands
    7. Itigi-Sumbu thicket
    8. Lake Chad flooded savanna
    9. Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
    10. Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
    11. Serengeti volcanic grasslands
    12. Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
    13. Southern Miombo woodlands
    14. Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic
    15. Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
    16. Zambezian halophytics

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Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "Tanzania country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 4, 2008; Retrieved November 28, 2008]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Tanzania_country_profile>
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