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Africa > Tanzania > Government

TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city
Dar es Salaam; note - legislative offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which is planned as the new national capital; the National Assembly now meets there on regular basis
Corruption 2.9 [90th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 16% [34th of 143]
Procedures to register property > number 10 ... [14th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 30.4 % ... [19th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 13 ... [18th of 171]
Status federal pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 313 days ... [20th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 393 days ... [115th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 123 days ... [35th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 30 days ... [101st of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 248 hours ... [86th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 3 years ... [74th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 279 ... [69th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 98 ... [62nd of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Tanzania still hosts more than a half-million refugees, more than any other African country, mainly from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the international community's efforts at repatriation; disputes with Malawi over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant
UN membership date 14 Dec. 1961
United Nations mission
http://www.hcindiatz.org/fpolicy.htm
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/tz_foreignr.html
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Kalorama Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania, united rep. of tanzania, Tanzania, U. Rep. of

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