Tanzania besides being the largest country in East Africa, is also the richest country in wildlife and more protected areas, nearly 33% of its total area.
The mainland of the country is almost a central plateau, with an average of between 900 and 1800m altitude, located between the east and west sides of the geological fault known as the Great Depression of the Rift Valley, this structure extends along nearly 6500 km from the Dead Sea to Mozambique. It was formed more than 30 million years by the crash and subsequent separation of the tectonic plates that formed the continental masses of Africa and Eurasia. The separation caused large movements forming escarpaduras, gorges and plains. Many sectors of the rift characterized by its volcanoes such as Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, and many other boilers in the Highlands of Crater (Ngorongoro, Ol Donyo Lengai, Embakai, etc.), there are other areas with large lakes is characterized as the Tanganyika (the second deepest in the world, from 1433 m deep) and Nyasa. The areas most impressive landscapes are in the protected area of Ngorongoro National Park and Lake Manyara. From north to the southwest there is a mountain formed by the Stop and Usambara Mountains as the territory is close to the coast, close and flat. The maximum altitude (in the country and Africa) is the snowy summit of Kilimanjaro, 5,898 meters above sea level. In the south are the mountains Kipengere and Livingstone on Lake Nyasa and east are mountains Rubeho and Uluguru. The only active volcano is the Ol Doinyo Lengai, west of Kilimanjaro. There are three lakes (one of them the Victoria, 43,173 square kilometers, the third largest in the world after the Caspian Sea and Lake Superior), Tanzania has few permanent rivers, although born in its territory the Nile, the Congo and Zambezi. In the south is the Rufiji river basin, with more than 98,166 square kilometers. Both wetlands as mountain soils have ferruginosos and brown volcanic lava.
The island portion of Tanzania includes the island of Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia islands some more.
Limits: Country of eastern Africa, bordered to the North Kenya and Uganda, the West with Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), and South with Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. By East Tanzania overlooks the Indian Ocean where, a short distance from the mainland, several islands are under its sovereignty, including Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia.