Plugs and electricity in Tanzania

Tanzania runs at 230 V, 50 Hz, with Type D, G sockets.

Data status: references list slightly different sockets.

What you need, coming from…

Two devices that behave oppositely. A charger takes any supply, so only the plug shape matters. A hair dryer is built for one voltage, and the wrong one destroys it.

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Socket types used here

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  Type DType D (BS 546, 5 A) · 3 pins · earthed
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  Type GType G (BS 1363) · 3 pins · earthed

Plug photographs from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized. Credits and licences.

What the two references say

This site grades a country by comparing two general references rather than merging them. Where they disagree we show both and say so, because a reconciled number with the disagreement hidden is the failure mode this whole dataset is built against.