10 Facts About Tanganyika Territory

Tanganyika Territory wrote that the locals were not sure about its meaning and conjectured that it meant something like "the great lake spreading out like a plain", or "plain-like lake".

In 1927, Tanganyika Territory entered the Customs Union of the East Africa Protectorate and the Uganda Protectorate, which eventually became the independent countries of Kenya and Uganda, and the East African Postal Union, later the East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration.

Much of Tanganyika Territory's economy was based around cash crops, in particular Coffee.

One of the major drivers for decolonisation in Tanganyika Territory was TANU which was founded in 1954, led by Julius Nyerere.

The majority of the voters in Tanganyika Territory were African, approximately two-thirds of the 28, 500 registered voters, with them coming from across the country.

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Tanganyika Territory eventually gained its independence on 9 December 1961, after Nyerere had met a British government representative to arrange the steps to be taken on the road to independence.

British colony of Tanganyika Territory gained independence on 9 December 1961, with Julius Nyerere becoming first, its prime minister in 1960 under British rule, and then president when Tanganyika Territory was declared a republic in 1962.

However, two of the main factors that burdened Tanganyika Territory's independence was its geography and its surrounding neighbours.

The destabilizing conflicts that bordered Tanganyika Territory meant that refugees from the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda often flooded into Tanganyika Territory.

In 1964, after the Zanzibar Revolution which saw the Arab rule of Zanzibar overthrown, Tanganyika Territory merged with Zanzibar to become the United Republic of Tanganyika Territory, which later became known as Tanzania on 26 April 1964.