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Country Facts<\/strong>
\nName: United Republic of Tanzania
\nPopulatiom: 45 million (UN, 2010)
\nCapital: Dodoma (0fficial)\/ Dar (commercial)
\nArea: 945,087 km squared
\nLanguages: English, Swahili
\nReligions: Christianity, Islam
\nLife Expectancy: men-57 years, women-59 years (UN,2010)
\nCurrency:\u00a0 1 Tanzanian shilling = 100 cents\/ $1 dollar
\nGNI\/capita: US $500 (World Bank, 2009)
\nInternational Dialing Code:\u00a0 +255<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\n-Carleton has an exchange agreement<\/a> with the University of Dar es Salaam that allows students of both schools to pay \u00a0their home school’s tuition and to attend the opposite school for a full school year
\n-Institute of Rural Development Planning in Dodoma has a new academic course in finance development planning and investment that will support the growing private sector<\/p>\n

Economy<\/strong>
\n-annual growth rate since 2006 6.8% (IMF)
\n-gold earnings are rising
\n-high levels of poverty but improving<\/p>\n

Politics<\/strong>
\n-stable,\u00a0\u00a01992 was the year of the re-introduction of multi-party politics
\n-hosts thousands of refugees from conflicts in countries of the Great Lakes Regions<\/p>\n

International<\/strong>
\n-planned highway through Serengeti game park might threaten plants and animals who live there but also could be a huge tourism draw
\n-construction of a 532 km gas pipeline agreed upon by China and Tanzania for US $1 billion<\/p>\n

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