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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 Malawi, ↙ Zambia Zambia, ← Congo-Kinshasa Congo-Kinshasa, ↖ Burundi Burundi, ↖ Rwanda Rwanda, ↑ Uganda Uganda, ↗ Kenya Kenya, ↓ Mozambique 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: 19,212,000 Catholics (30.4% of 63,177,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 1,416 parishes, 4,932 mission stations (107 with resident priest, 4,825 without resident priest), 545 other centres

Clergy: 49 bishops (35 diocesan, 14 titular), 3,372 priests (2,307 diocesan, 1,065 religious), 1 permanent deacon (religious)

Non-Clergy: 15,438 religious (1,001 brothers, 14,437 sisters), 64 members of secular institutes (sisters), 2,786 major seminarians, 460 missionaries, 17,473 catechists