Capital City |
Dodoma; note - Dodoma was designated the national capital in 1996; Dar es Salaam, the original national capital, is the country's largest city and commercial center |
Capital location |
6 48 S, 39 17 E |
Capital - history |
Dodoma, in the native Gogo language, means "it has sunk"; supposedly, one day during the rainy season, an elephant drowned in the area; the villagers in that place were so struck by what had occurred, that ever since the locale has been referred to as the place where "it (the elephant) sunk" |
Capital - time difference |
UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) |