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🇹🇿 Tanzania 31 administrative divisions

31 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 598 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1
TZ · TZA · 834
Capital
Dodoma
Continent
Africa
Currency
TZS, Tanzanian shilling
Calling code
+255
Internet domain
.tz
Divisions
31
Cities and towns
598

Divisions

The 31 divisions of Tanzania

31 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division ISO 3166-2 Cities and towns Population
Arusha Region TZ-01 28 1,694,310
Dar es Salaam Region TZ-02 19 4,364,541
Dodoma Region TZ-03 59 3,085,625
Geita Region TZ-27 11 1,739,530
Iringa Region TZ-04 18 941,238
Kagera Region TZ-05 24 2,458,023
Katavi Region TZ-28 5 564,604
Kigoma Region TZ-08 25 2,127,930
Kilimanjaro Region TZ-09 22 1,640,087
Lindi Region TZ-12 13 864,652
Manyara Region TZ-26 18 1,425,131
Mara Region TZ-13 22 1,743,830
Mbeya Region TZ-14 36 1,708,548
Mjini Magharibi Region TZ-15 11 593,678
Morogoro Region TZ-16 20 2,218,492
Mtwara Region TZ-17 22 1,270,854
Mwanza Region TZ-18 12 2,772,509
Njombe Region TZ-29 14 702,097
North Pemba Region TZ-06 7 211,732
Pwani Region TZ-19 27 1,098,668
Rukwa Region TZ-20 8 1,004,539
Ruvuma Region TZ-21 34 1,376,891
Shinyanga Region TZ-22 11 1,534,808
Simiyu Region TZ-30 11 1,584,157
Singida Region TZ-23 38 1,370,637
Songwe Region TZ-31 7 998,862
South Pemba Region TZ-10 5 195,116
Tabora Region TZ-24 16 2,291,623
Tanga Region TZ-25 21 2,045,205
Unguja North Region TZ-07 9 187,455
Unguja South Region TZ-11 18 115,588

A further 7 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Tanzania
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/TZ.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/TZ/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.