The following is a list of the largest cities by population and of capital cities in the geographic region of East Africa. Because population counts in each country occur at different times, the list of numbers is meant as a rough indicator of relative size.
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List of capital cities
| City | Country | Population (approximate)[1] | Year of approximation | Notes | Area | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addis Ababa |  Ethiopia
|
3,384,569 | 2008 | Capital | Horn of Africa |  |
| Antananarivo |  Madagascar
|
1,299,080 | 2013[2] | Capital | Indian Ocean islands |  |
| Asmara |  Eritrea
|
963,000 | 2020[citation needed] | Capital | Horn of Africa |  |
| Berbera |  Somaliland
|
60753 | 2005 | Horn of Africa |  | |
| Blantyre |  Malawi
|
994,500 | 2018 | Southeast Africa |  | |
| Bujumbura |  Burundi
|
1,056,169 | 2019 | Former capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Dar es Salaam |  Tanzania
|
5,383,728 | 2022[3] | Former Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Dire Dawa | Ethiopia
|
607,321 | 2008[citation needed] | Horn of Africa |  | |
| Djibouti City |  Djibouti
|
475,322 | 2009 | Capital | Horn of Africa |  |
| Dodoma | Tanzania
|
410,956 | 2012 | Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Gitega | Burundi
|
125,989 | 2019[4] | Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Harare |  Zimbabwe
|
1,606,000 | 2016 | Capital | Southeast Africa |  |
| Hargeisa | Somaliland
|
1,960,000 | 2019 | Capital | Horn of Africa |  |
| Hobyo |  Somalia
|
1,211,800 | N/A | Horn of Africa |  | |
| Juba |  South Sudan
|
525,953 | 2017 | Capital | Nile Valley |  |
| Kampala |  Uganda
|
1,507,114 | 2014 | Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Keren | Eritrea
|
146,483 | 2012 | Horn of Africa |  | |
| Khartoum |  Sudan
|
1,974,647 | Capital | Nile Valley |  | |
| Kigali |  Rwanda
|
1,132,686 | 2012 | Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Kisumu |  Kenya
|
1,268,826 | 2017 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Kitwe |  Zambia
|
522,092 | 2010 | Southeast Africa |  | |
| Lilongwe | Malawi
|
1,227,100 | 2018 | Capital | Southeast Africa | |
| Lindi | Tanzania
|
41,549 | 2002 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Lusaka | Zambia
|
1,742,979 | 2009 | Capital | Southeast Africa |  |
| Mahajanga | Madagascar
|
246022 | 2018 | Indian Ocean islands |  | |
| Malakal | South Sudan
|
147,450 | 2014 | Nile Valley | ||
| Mamoudzou |  Mayotte
|
71,437 | 2017 | Capital | Indian Ocean islands |  |
| Maputo |  Mozambique
|
1,101,170 | 2017 | Capital | Southeast Africa |  |
| Mbarara | Uganda
|
195,013 | 2014 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Mogadishu | Somalia
|
2,425,000 | 2017 | Capital | Horn of Africa |  |
| Mombasa | Kenya
|
1,500,000 | 2017 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Muhanga | Rwanda
|
87,613 | 2015 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Moroni |  Comoros
|
54,000 | 2011[citation needed] | Capital | Indian Ocean islands |  |
| Mutsamudu | Comoros
|
25,471 | 2010 | Indian Ocean islands |  | |
| Muyinga | Burundi
|
100,715 | 2012 | Great Lakes Region | ||
| Mwanza | Tanzania
|
706,543 | 2012 | Great Lakes Region |  | |
| Nacala | Mozambique
|
225,034 | 2017 | Southeast Africa |  | |
| Nairobi | Kenya
|
6,448,342 | 2017 | Capital | Great Lakes Region |  |
| Ngozi | Burundi
|
86000 | 2017 | Southeast Africa | ||
| Omdurman | Sudan
|
1,200,000 | Nile Valley |  | ||
| Port Louis |  Mauritius
|
149,194 | 2015 | Capital | Indian Ocean islands |  |
| Saint-Denis | Réunion
|
146,985 | 2015 | Capital | Indiban Ocean islands |  |
| Saint-Paul | Réunion
|
104,646 | 2015 | Indian Ocean islands |  | |
| Victoria |  Seychelles
|
26,450 | 2010 | Capital | Indian Ocean islands |  |
See also
- List of metropolitan areas in Africa
- Lists of cities in Africa, mostly by country
- List of largest cities in the Arab world
- Urbanization in Africa
- List of largest cities in Africa
References
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- ^ "Madagascar: Major cities and localities". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Census Information Dissemination Platform". sensa.nbs.go.tz. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ^ "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 2013-01-11.
This page was last edited on 17 January 2024, at 15:26