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  1. Island region of Tanzania. area 1,658 sq
  2. km/640 sq mi (80 km/50 mi long) towns
  3. Zanzibar products cloves, copra population
  4. (1995) 571,000 history settled by Arab
  5. traders in the 7th century; became a
  6. sultanate; under British protection
  7. 1890-1963. Together with the island of Pemba,
  8. some nearby islets, and a strip of mainland
  9. territory, it became a republic. It merged
  10. with Tanganyika as Tanzania 1964.
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