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It is Ghana's third largest city, with a population of 371,351 people (as of 2010). [2]: 67 The city has been ranked as the fastest-growing city in West Africa.[4] Tamale is located in the Kingdom of Dagbon, Ghana's oldest Kingdom.[5] Major ethnic groups who resided in Tamale are Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi, Akan, and Dagaaba.
Kampala is reported to be among the fastest-growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03 percent, [10] by City Mayors. Mercer (a New York –based consulting firm) has regularly ranked Kampala as East Africa's best city to live in, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] ahead of Nairobi and Kigali .
With a population of over five million people, Dar es Salaam is the largest city in East Africa and the sixth-largest in Africa. Located on the Swahili coast, Dar es Salaam is an important economic center and one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. [2] The town was founded by Majid bin Said, the first Sultan of Zanzibar, in 1865 or 1866.
Gaborone is one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa. The growth of Gaborone, especially suburban growth, has caused much of the farmland surrounding the city to be absorbed into the city. Much of the food for Gaborone comes from north of the city with some smaller-scale farms on the southern end. [81]
Kinshasa (/ kɪnˈʃɑːsə /; French: [kinʃasa]; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until 30 June 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.
Lagos is also among the top ten of the world's fastest-growing cities and urban areas. [28] [29] In 2024, Time Out (magazine) ranked Lagos as the 19th Best City to visit in the World. A megacity, it has the fourth-highest GDP in Africa, [2] [30] and houses one of the largest and busiest seaports on the continent.
Abuja (/ ə ˈ b uː dʒ ə /) [4] is the capital and sixth most populous city of Nigeria. [5] Situated in the middle of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Planning Associates (IPA), [6] [7] [8] a consortium of three American planning and architecture firms made up of Wallace, Roberts ...
Kisumu (/ kiːˈsuːmuː / kee-SOO-moo) [ 4 ] is the third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa. [ 5 ] It is the second-largest city after Kampala in the Lake Victoria Basin. The city has a population of slightly over 600,000. The metro region, including Maseno and Ahero, has a population of 1,155,574 people (560,942 ...