Tanzania's Diverse Landscapes
Explore by Region
Each region tells a different story — choose your Tanzania adventure.
Arusha
Arusha Region is Tanzania's tourism nerve-centre and the undisputed safari capital of East Africa. Nestled between the Arusha and Meru peak…
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam — 'Haven of Peace' in Arabic — is Tanzania's commercial capital, largest city, and the beating economic heart of East Africa'…
Dodoma
Dodoma is Tanzania's official capital city and the administrative heart of the nation since the government's relocation from Dar es Salaam …
Geita
Geita Region, carved from Mwanza in 2012, is dominated by gold — both literally and economically. Geita Gold Mine is one of Africa's larges…
Iringa
Iringa Region commands Tanzania's southern highlands, a cool, fertile plateau of tea estates, sunflower fields, and pine forests more remin…
Kagera
Kagera Region occupies Tanzania's far northwestern corner, bordered by Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Lake Victoria. The Kagera River — the m…
Kaskazini Pemba
Kaskazini Pemba (North Pemba) represents Zanzibar's most pristine and least-developed island region, earning the nickname "the Green Island…
Katavi
Katavi Region, established as a standalone administrative unit in 2012, wraps around one of Tanzania's most spectacular and least-visited p…
Kigoma
Kigoma Region presses against the Democratic Republic of Congo along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika — the world's second-deepest lake…
Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro Region anchors the northeastern corner of Tanzania, presided over by Africa's highest peak — Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 m. The …
Kusini Pemba
Kusini Pemba (South Pemba) is the administrative heart of Pemba Island, centred on Chake Chake — the island's main town and port. The regio…
Lindi
Lindi Region stretches along Tanzania's southeastern coast, a land of cashew nut orchards, ancient Makonde woodcarving traditions, and some…
Manvara
Manyara Region (sometimes listed as Manvara in older records) frames the eastern side of Tanzania's Rift Valley, anchored by the shallow so…
Manyara
The Manyara Region in northern Tanzania contains two of East Africa's most rewarding national parks: Tarangire National Park, famous for it…
Mara
Mara Region hugs the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria, Tanzania's slice of the world's second-largest freshwater lake. The Serengeti's i…
Mbeya
Mbeya Region anchors the Southern Highlands corridor, a temperate, richly agricultural landscape ringed by the Mbeya, Poroto, and Livingsto…
Mjini Magharibi (Zanzibar Urban West)
Mjini Magharibi — Zanzibar's urban west region — contains Stone Town, the island's ancient capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along …
Morogoro
Morogoro Region sweeps from the Swahili coast inland across the Uluguru Mountains — biodiversity hotspots harbouring dozens of endemic cham…
Mtwara
Mtwara Region occupies Tanzania's southernmost tip, bordering Mozambique across the Ruvuma River. A natural deep-water port — built by the …
Mwanza
Mwanza, Tanzania's second-largest city and the capital of Mwanza Region, earns the nickname 'Rock City' from the dramatic granite boulders …
Njombe
Njombe Region crowns Tanzania's southern highlands, a mist-shrouded montane world of tea plantations, pine forests, and rushing highland ri…
Pemba Island
Pemba Island — the lesser-known sister of Zanzibar — is a lushly forested island of deep-green clove plantations, pristine coral walls, and…
Pemba North (Kaskazini Pemba)
Northern island region renowned for world-class diving and pristine reefs
Pemba South (Kusini Pemba)
Southern island region with beaches, culture, and diving
Pwani
Pwani (Coast) Region curves along 400 km of Indian Ocean shoreline between Dar es Salaam and the Mozambique border, delivering some of East…
Rukwa
Rukwa Region is defined by the dramatic Rift Valley escarpments plunging down to Lake Rukwa — a shallow, saline Rift lake that shimmers sil…
Ruvuma
Ruvuma Region shares its southern border with Mozambique along the Ruvuma River and harbours Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous) — the …
Shinyanga
Shinyanga Region, historically dubbed 'Tanzania's Diamond Region,' once hosted Williamson Diamond Mine — the world's largest alluvial diamo…
Simiyu
Simiyu Region, carved from Shinyanga in 2012, stretches across the semi-arid plateau south of Lake Victoria. The Sukuma people — Tanzania's…
Singida
Singida Region is a rugged, semi-arid heartland of scattered granite kopjes, seasonal salt lakes, and the wide-open skies of central Tanzan…
Songwe
Songwe Region, Tanzania's newest administrative region established in 2016, sits at the junction of the Great Rift Valley's southwestern ar…
Tabora
Tabora Region occupies Tanzania's geographic heart, a vast plateau of miombo woodland and seasonal grasslands crisscrossed by old caravan r…
Tanga
Tanga Region sprawls along Tanzania's northeastern coast between Kenya and Kilimanjaro, blending Indian Ocean beach culture with dramatic h…
Unguja North (Kaskazini Unguja)
Northern Zanzibar with Nungwi Beach and northern coral reefs
Unguja South (Kusini Unguja)
Southern Zanzibar with sandy beaches and cultural heritage
Zanzibar North (Nungwi & Kendwa)
The northern tip of Unguja (Zanzibar Island) is home to Nungwi and Kendwa — two of the Indian Ocean's most celebrated beach destinations. N…
Zanzibar South & Central (Jambiani & Paje)
Zanzibar's eastern coastline — particularly the villages of Jambiani and Paje — offers a dramatically different rhythm to the island's busi…
Zanzibar Urban/West (Stone Town)
Stone Town — the historic heart of Zanzibar City and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — is a labyrinthine medieval city of coral-stone building…