Tanzania has the sixth largest population in Africa (51 million), with over four million people living in the largest city, Dar es Salaam. The large proportion of the community consist of market traders and proprietors of small businesses whose families originated from the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent—areas of the world with which the settlements of the Tanzanian coast have had long-standing trading relations.
Tanzania ni nchi ya siti barani Afrika kwa idadi ya watu (watu milioni 51), ambapo zaidi ya watu milioni nne wanaishi katika mji mkublwa zaidi, Dar es Salaam. Sehemu kubwa ya jamii hiyo inajumuisha wanabiashara na wamiliki wa biashara ndogondogo ambao asili ya familia zao ni Mashariki ya Kati na Bara Dogo - maeneo ya dunia ambayo wakazi wa pwani ya Tanzania wamekuwa na uhusiano mkubwa wa kibiashara nao.