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Patron Saint: Immaculate Conception

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Capital: Dodoma

Area: 885,800 km²

Population: 53,950,935

Former Name: German East Africa / Tanganyika and Zanzibar

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Malawi , ↙ Zambia , ← Congo-Kinshasa , ↖ Burundi , ↖ Rwanda , ↑ Uganda , ↗ Kenya , ↓ Mozambique

Religions: Christian 61.4%, Muslim 35.2%, folk religion 1.8%, other 0.2%, unaffiliated 1.4%

Languages: Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages

Ethnic Groups: mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African

Motto: Uhuru na Umoja (Swahili) (Freedom and Unity)

Area: 883,749 km²

Catholic Population: 18,076,000 Catholics (30.4% of 59,442,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 1,281 parishes, 4,915 mission stations (67 with resident priest, 4,848 without resident priest), 381 other centres

Clergy: 42 bishops (31 diocesan, 11 titular), 3,201 priests (2,177 diocesan, 1,024 religious), 3 permanent deacons (religious)

Non-Clergy: 14,727 religious (898 brothers, 13,829 sisters), 63 members of secular institutes (sisters), 2,463 major seminarians, 509 missionaries, 17,237 catechists