Pemba Accommodation
The island of Pemba
known as 'Al Jazeera Al Khadra' (the green island, in
Arabic) is an island forming part of the Zanzibar
archipelago, lying off the east coast of Africa in the
Indian Ocean.


It is situated about 50
kilometres to the north of the island of Zanzibar. In
the 1960s Zanzibar was united with the former colony of
Tanganyika to form Tanzania. It lies 50 kilometres east
of mainland Tanzania. Together with Mafia Island (south
of Zanzibar), they form the Spice Islands. In 1988, the
estimated population was 265,000, with an area of 980
km˛.