| Name: | Zanzibar (Zanzibar and Pemba) |
| Local name (Swahili): | Unguja (Unguja na Pemba) |
| Status: | sovereign state in 1963-1964 |
| Modern status: | self-governing territory of the United Republic of Tanzania |
| Surface: | 2.46 ths. sq. km |
| Population (1995): | 779 ths. |
| Capital: | Zanzibar |
| Official languages: | Swahili, English |