TZ · Curated travel guide
Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Tanzania and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 4 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Mountain in Tanzania, highest in Africa
A large dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania. Africa's highest mountain and the world's highest free-standing mountain, it stands 4,900 m (16,100 ft) over the plateau from which it rises, and its top is 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above the sea.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
National park in Tanzania
A big national park in the north of Tanzania, spreading over 14,763 km² (5,700 sq mi) of eastern Mara Region and northeastern Simiyu Region, with more than 15,000 km² (5,800 sq mi) of savanna.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Protected area and a World Heritage Site in Arusha Region, Tanzania
A UNESCO World Heritage Site and protected area in Tanzania's northeastern Crater Highlands, in Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region, lying 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha City. It takes its name from Ngorongoro Crater, the big volcanic caldera within it.
Photo: Jantjeerkamp at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
World Heritage Site in Tanzania, East Africa
Now partly renamed Nyerere National Park, a protected reserve and wilderness in southern Tanzania, East Africa, covering 50,000 km² (19,000 sq mi), plus buffer zones.
Photo: Panii at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Archipelago in Tanzania
Also called the Spice Islands, a group of islands in the Sea of Zanj off mainland Tanzania.
Photo: Oleg, CC BY 2.0
Active volcano in Arusha Region, Tanzania
An active stratovolcano in northern Tanzania: a cone with two craters, the northern one having erupted in historical times.
Photo: Clem23, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dormant stratovolcano in Arusha Region, Tanzania
A dormant stratovolcano in south-eastern Arusha Region, Tanzania, 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Kilimanjaro. At 4,562.13 metres (14,968 ft), it is Africa's eighth-highest mountain and can be seen from Kilimanjaro on clear days.
Photo: User:Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0
National Historic Site of Tanzania
Also spelled Oldupai Gorge, a paleoanthropological site in northern Tanzania, where many exposed sites have been invaluable for understanding early human evolution.
Photo: Mike Krüger, CC BY-SA 4.0
World Heritage
National Historic Site of Tanzania
Also called the Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings, ancient paintings on the walls of rock shelters in central Tanzania. For this impressive body of rock art, UNESCO made the Kondoa region a World Heritage Site in 2006.
Photo: D. Tamino Boehm, assent by email 9+10 June 2014, for license CC-Lizenz by-sa attribution, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Geographical region in Tanzania
An African region stretching across Tanzania's Arusha and Mara Regions and into southwestern Kenya. Its protected area takes in approximately 30,000 km² (12,000 sq mi), including the Serengeti National Park and several game reserves.
Photo: Harvey Barrison from Massapequa, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Officially the United Republic of Tanzania, an East African country in the African Great Lakes region. Kenya lies to its northeast, Uganda to its northwest, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda to its west, Zambia to its southwest, Malawi and Mozambique to its south and the Indian Ocean to its east. A 2024 estimate put its population at around 67.5 million, the largest of any African country lying wholly south of the equator.
Officially The United Republic of Tanzania. Known locally as Tanzania, the United Republic of.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Selous Game Reserve and others. Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Selous Game Reserve and Kondoa Rock-Art Sites are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Tanzania that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
4 of the 10 in this guide: Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Selous Game Reserve and Kondoa Rock-Art Sites. That is not the full count for Tanzania, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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