total: 3,690 km
narrow gauge: 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 88,200 km
paved: 3,704 km
unpaved: 84,496 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa principal avenues of
commerce with neighboring countries; rivers not navigable (2004)

Pipelines:
gas 29 km; oil 866 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Kilwa Masoko, Lindi, Mtwara, Mwanza,
Pangani, Tanga, Wete, Zanzibar

Merchant marine:
total: 10 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 25,481 GRT/31,011 DWT
registered in other countries: 5 (2004 est.)
by type: cargo 3, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 3, roll
on/roll off 1, short-sea/passenger 1

Airports:
123 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 112
1,524 to 2,437 m: 19
914 to 1,523 m: 60
under 914 m: 33 (2004 est.)

Military Tanzania

Military branches:
Tanzanian People's Defense Force: Army, Naval Wing, and Air Defense
Command; National Service

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
15 years of age for voluntary military service; 18 years of age for
compulsory military service upon graduation from secondary school;
conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 8,687,477 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 5,031,621 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$20.3 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.2% (2003)

Transnational Issues Tanzania

Disputes - international:
disputes with Malawi over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi)
and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 447,877 (Burundi), 153,155
(Democratic Republic of the Congo), 3,036 (Somalia) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
growing role in transshipment of Southwest and Southeast Asian
heroin and South American cocaine destined for South African,
European, and US markets and of South Asian methaqualone bound for
Southern Africa; money laundering remains a problem

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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