Dimbani - officially Kizimkazi Dimbani - is a village on the
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...
n island of
Unguja
Unguja (also referred to as "Zanzibar Island" or simply "Zanzibar", in grc, Μενουθιάς, Menuthias – as mentioned in The ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'') is the largest and most populated island of the Zanzibar archipelago, in Tanza ...
, part of
Zanzibar
Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islan ...
. It is one of a pair of villages located close to the southern tip of the west coast, the other being
Kizimkazi Mtendeni (commonly known simply as Kizimkazi).
Dimbani's most notable feature is
Kizimkazi Mosque, one of the
oldest Islamic structures in
East Africa.
See also
*
Southeast Africa
Southeast Africa or Southeastern Africa is an African region that is intermediate between East Africa and Southern Africa. It comprises the countries Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania ...
References
* Finke, J. (2006) ''The Rough Guide to Zanzibar (2nd edition).'' New York: Rough Guides.
Villages in Zanzibar
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