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Tanzania
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Turkey
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Togo
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Tunisia
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Detailed explanation-1: -The new campus marks IIT Madras’ first international campus. IIT Madras is set to establish the first Indian Institute of Technology in Africa in Tanzania, with classes scheduled to begin in October. The new campus will be located in Zanzibar, and marks IIT Madras’ first international campus.
Detailed explanation-2: -The name “Tanzania” was created as a clipped compound of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It consists of the first three letters of the names of the two states ("Tan” and “Zan") and the suffix, “ia” to form Tanzania.
Detailed explanation-3: -IIT Kharagpur has an 8.7-square-kilometre (2, 100-acre) campus and has about 22, 000 residents.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the above recommendations of the Sarkar committee in view, the first Indian Institute of Technology was born in May 1950 in Hijli, Kharagpur, in the eastern part of India. Initially the IIT started functioning from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta and very soon shifted to Hijli in Sept.