Zanzibar

/ˈzænzɪbɑː(ɹ)/ name

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  1. 1
    An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.

    "Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us."

  2. 2
    A former sultanate in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania. historical

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autonomous regionindian ocean archipelagoisland groupregional governmentself governing territoryzanzibar islands

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"In the morning of the 16th of March of 2022, I woke up from a dream about a grand amusement park where people did make-believe that they were really in a colony on Mars. The setting was a town that was a kind of bizarre fusion of Zanzibar and Hawaii. It was rustic and believable!"

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār), literally meaning “black-skinned coast”.

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