Wanawake enzi za TanganyikaNimeona historia ya jina la Tanganyika hapa: Je, hayo maelezo ya kupatikana kwa jina, Tanganyika ni kweli. Mimi nilikuwa nadhania 'nyika' ni msitu. Au?
It is said that the mainland portion of what is now Tanzania was named by a British civil servant in 1920, from the Swahili words tanga (sail) and nyika (bright arid plain). Thus what was known formerly as German East Africa became Tanganyika Territory. In 1964, Tanganyika was joined with Zanzibar, an offshore archipelago of islands, to form the present United Republic of Tanzania.
