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According to estimates 35% of the population in Tanzania is
Muslim, 30% is Christian and 35% practice a
Traditional African religion in the mainland More than 99% of people in Zanzibar are Muslim.

There are 126 different languages spoken in
Tanzania but the main languages are English
And Swahili.

Dodoma in the capital city and lies in the middle of Tanzania.

The national population 52,290,800 million and growing.

What Caritas is doing in Tanzania
Caritas Australia has improved the availability of clean and safe drinking water. Women no longer have to travel as far to gather clean water and new cases of waterborne diseases in the area have decreased from 35 per month to 7. The average yield from 1

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