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The Dar es Salaam Central Business District is the largest in Tanzania and comprises the Kisutu, Kivukoni, Upanga and Kariakoo areas. [citation needed] The downtown area is located in the Ilala district. Kivukoni is home to the Tanzania Central Bank, The Bank of Tanzania, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and the city's important Magogoni fish ...
Map of Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, largest city in Tanzania. Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city. Dodoma, capital city of Tanzania. Zanzibar City. This is a list of cities, municipalities, and towns in Tanzania.
[3] [4] The current population of Dar es Salaam is estimated at over 6 million with a current annual population growth of 5.7%, [5] resulting in 70% of the city being of informal settlements. [6] Ramani Huria is putting these informal settlements on the map, along with drainage systems, roads, building features, and district boundaries.
Dar es Salaam is the de facto capital and largest city. Dodoma, located in the centre of Tanzania, is the de jure capital, although action to move government buildings to Dodoma has stalled. The population consists of about 125 ethnic groups. [4] The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples have more than 1 million members each. [5]: 4
The Pwani districts that border Dar es Salaam region are Bagamoyo District to the north, Kibaha Urban District to the west, Kisarawe District to the south west and Mkuranga District to the south of the region. The region's seat (capital) is located inside the ward of Ilala. The region is named after the city of Dar es Salaam itself. The region ...
Tanzania among other states in southern Africa is being adversely affected by inappropriate farming methods and overgrazing. [3] Most of the eastern region of Africa, of which Tanzania is a significant part, gets less than 600 mm of rainfall each year. [3] Regions with an average rainfall of 500–1000 mm are classified as semiarid climates.
The Tanzanian political infrastructure created after the 1961 independence declaration was a critical response to colonialist values. The British had held the mainland part of modern Tanzania as a mandated territory (as a former German colony) under the League of Nations after World War I. (Mandated territories could not be colonised by the responsible power, but had to be led through to self ...
Dar es Salaam (Arabic: دار السلام Dār as-Salām), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city, economic centre and former capital of Tanzania. The city serves as the capital for the coextensive Dar es Salaam Region.