Zanzibar Urban/West, Tanzania · Tanzania
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The facts, computed today
- Coordinates
- 6.17°S 39.20°E
- Great-circle distance from Oslo
- 7,761 km
- Direction from Oslo
- south-east
- Daylight there today
- 12h 07m
0h 02m more than Oslo
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In short
Zanzibar City
Zanzibar City lies on the west coast of Unguja, the larger of the two main islands of an archipelago separated from the Tanzanian mainland by a channel just 36 kilometres wide at its narrowest. Its old quarter, Stone Town, was listed by UNESCO in 2000 as an outstanding example of a Swahili coastal trading town: houses of coralline stone and mangrove timber, elaborately carved double doors, and a townscape shaped over more than a thousand years by Africa, Arabia, India and Europe. The islands were long famous for cloves, and Stone Town was also one of the main slave-trading ports of East Africa — a history the town does not hide.
Zanzibar has been a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania since the union with Tanganyika in 1964, and counted about 1.9 million people at the 2022 census. Inland, Jozani–Chwaka Bay National Park shelters the Zanzibar red colobus, a monkey found nowhere else on earth.
Why people might travel there
A Swahili trading town of coral stone and carved doors.
Zanzibar is about 7,800 kilometres south-south-east of Oslo, just past Nairobi on the same line. It is in the catalogue as an island rather than a city: an Indian Ocean destination with a documented, layered history, where the journey ends at a harbour instead of a terminal.
Warm all year, close to the equator, with two rainy seasons: the long rains of March to May, brought by the south-east monsoon (kusi), and the shorter rains of November and December. June to October is the driest stretch, with July the driest month; the north-east monsoon (kaskazi) brings sea breezes in the southern summer.
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Sources for the facts in this page: UNESCO — Stone Town of Zanzibar · Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics — Census 2022 · Wikipedia — Zanzibar · Wikipedia — Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park