Zanzibar is an archipelago in the Indian ocean, off the cost of African mainland that united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the republic of Tanzania.
The people of Zanzibar speak Swahili extensively. Many local residents also speak Arabic and English. There are three distinct varieties of Arabic in use in Zanzibar that is the Omani Arabic which is spoke by a larger group, The standard Arabic, and Hadhrami Arabic. The dialect of Swahili spoken is called Kiunguja which has a high percentage of Arabic loanwords. The island is a large producer of spices such as cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and black pepper. Moreover, Zanzibar is home to endemic red colobus, the rare Zanzibar leopard, servaline genet. Zanzibar hosts important archaeological features such as the Livingstone house, the Gukiani Bridge, the old fort of Zanzibar. It is also the only place in Eastern Africa to have long settlement houses that were built in the 1970s.
