Tanzania

Tanzania in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Tanzania

  National flag

• 🌍Mount Kilimanjaro

  Landscape

  Mount Kilimanjaro

  A real place in Tanzania

• 🏔️Mount Kilimanjaro

  Landmark

  Mount Kilimanjaro

  Africa's highest mountain — snow on the summit, almost on the equator.

• 🚪Stone Town, Zanzibar

  Landmark

  Stone Town, Zanzibar

  Carved doors and coral-stone houses from centuries of Indian Ocean trade.

• 🌄Ngorongoro Crater

  Landmark

  Ngorongoro Crater

  A 20 km-wide crater floor with its own resident lions and rhinos.

• 🦌Serengeti plains

  Landmark

  Serengeti plains

  Its name comes from the Maasai for 'endless plains'.

• 🦴Olduvai Gorge

  Landmark

  Olduvai Gorge

  Nicknamed the cradle of humankind for its ancient tool and fossil finds.

• 🦁Lion

  Wildlife

  Lion

  Lions are the only big cats that live in family groups, called prides.

• 🐘African elephant

  Wildlife

  African elephant

  The largest land animal alive — and it talks through the ground with rumbles.

• 🦒Giraffe

  Wildlife

  Giraffe

  A giraffe's neck has exactly seven bones, the same number as yours.

• 🦛Hippopotamus

  Wildlife

  Hippopotamus

  Hippos cannot swim — they walk and bounce along the river bed.

• 🦓Plains zebra

  Wildlife

  Plains zebra

  No two zebras have the same stripe pattern, like fingerprints.

• 🐆Cheetah

  Wildlife

  Cheetah

  Fastest land animal — from standstill to 100 km/h in three seconds.

• 🐵Chimpanzee

  Wildlife

  Chimpanzee

  Chimps make and use tools, and each group has its own traditions.

• 🦩Lesser flamingo

  Wildlife

  Lesser flamingo

  They turn pink from the tiny algae they filter out of the water.

• 🐆Leopard

  Wildlife

  Leopard

  The strongest climber of the big cats — it can haul prey heavier than itself up a trunk.

• 🐃African buffalo

  Wildlife

  African buffalo

  Herds seem to 'vote' on which way to go by the direction they stand.

• 🐂Blue wildebeest

  Wildlife

  Blue wildebeest

  Calves can stand and run within minutes of being born.

• 🪶Ostrich

  Wildlife

  Ostrich

  It can outrun a racehorse and kick hard enough to hurt a lion.

• 🐊Nile crocodile

  Wildlife

  Nile crocodile

  A mother carries her hatchlings to the water in her mouth.

• 🐕Spotted hyena

  Wildlife

  Spotted hyena

  Clans are led by females, and hyenas hunt far more than they scavenge.

• 🐕‍🦺African wild dog

  Wildlife

  African wild dog

  The pack sneezes to vote on whether it is time to hunt.

• 🐒Olive baboon

  Wildlife

  Olive baboon

  Troops of over a hundred travel together with the babies in the middle.

• 🐖Aardvark

  Wildlife

  Aardvark

  Its name means 'earth pig' — and its burrows shelter dozens of other animals.

• 🦔Ground pangolin

  Wildlife

  Ground pangolin

  The only mammal covered in scales, made of the same stuff as your fingernails.

• 🦌Impala

  Wildlife

  Impala

  It can leap ten metres forward in a single bound.

• 🐒Black-and-white colobus

  Wildlife

  Black-and-white colobus

  It has no thumb, which helps it swing cleanly through the branches.

• 🦅Secretary bird

  Wildlife

  Secretary bird

  It kills snakes by stamping on them with the force of five times its body weight.

• 🦌Kirk's dik-dik

  Wildlife

  Kirk's dik-dik

  Pairs stay together for life and mark their patch with tears.

• 🦈Whale shark

  Wildlife

  Whale shark

  The biggest fish alive, and it eats only tiny plankton.

• 🦆Great white pelican

  Wildlife

  Great white pelican

  Groups fish together, herding shoals into the shallows.

• 🪲Goliath beetle

  Wildlife

  Goliath beetle

  One of the heaviest insects alive; the grubs weigh more than a mouse.

• 🐜Cathedral termites

  Wildlife

  Cathedral termites

  Their mounds are air-conditioned by design and can top eight metres.

• 🐦Greater honeyguide

  Wildlife

  Greater honeyguide

  It calls humans to a bees' nest, then shares the wax after the raid.

• 🐦Red-billed quelea

  Wildlife

  Red-billed quelea

  The most numerous wild bird on Earth — flocks can darken the sky.

• 🐟Nile perch

  Wildlife

  Nile perch

  It can grow to two metres and 200 kg in Lake Victoria.

• 🐠Lake Malawi cichlids

  Wildlife

  Lake Malawi cichlids

  Over 800 species live here and nowhere else — many carry eggs in their mouths.

• 🐍Puff adder

  Wildlife

  Puff adder

  It hisses like a puff of steam, which is where the name comes from.

• 🐍Black mamba

  Wildlife

  Black mamba

  Africa's fastest snake — its mouth, not its skin, is inky black.

• 🐈Serval

  Wildlife

  Serval

  It leaps three metres straight up to catch birds in mid-air.

• 🐈Common genet

  Wildlife

  Common genet

  It can squeeze through any gap its head fits through.

• 🐒Bushbaby

  Wildlife

  Bushbaby

  It can jump over two metres between branches in total darkness.

• 🐂Common eland

  Wildlife

  Common eland

  A tonne in weight and still able to clear a two-metre fence.

• 🦌Topi

  Wildlife

  Topi

  Males stand on mounds as lookout posts to watch their patch.

• 🦊Bat-eared fox

  Wildlife

  Bat-eared fox

  It listens for termites chewing underground, then digs them out.

• 🏙️Dodoma

  City

  Dodoma

  Capital of Tanzania

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