Back جمهورية زنجبار الشعبية Arabic República Popular de Zanzíbar AST Zanzibara AVK Занзибар и Пемба Bulgarian গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী জাঞ্জিবার Bengali/Bangla Volksrepublik Sansibar und Pemba German República Popular de Zanzíbar Spanish جمهوری خلق زنگبار Persian Sansibarin kansantasavalta Finnish République populaire de Pemba French
People's Republic of Zanzibar Jamhuri ya Watu wa Zanzibar (Swahili) | |||||||||||
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| 1964 | |||||||||||
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| Capital | Zanzibar City | ||||||||||
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| Religion | Islam | ||||||||||
| Government | Unitary socialist republic | ||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||
• 23 Jan – 26 Apr 1964 | Abeid Karume | ||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 12 January 1964 – 27 April 1964 | Abdullah Kassim Hanga | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||
| 12 January 1964 | |||||||||||
| Currency | East African shilling | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Tanzania | ||||||||||
The People's Republic of Zanzibar (Swahili: Jamhuri ya watu wa Zanzibar) was a short-lived African state founded in 1964, consisting of the islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago. It existed for less than six months before it merged with Tanganyika to create the "United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar", which would be renamed the United Republic of Tanzania in November of that year.