Dar es Salaam
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Dar es Salaam Mzizima Bongo |
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| City of Dar es Salaam | |
Dar es Salaam city skyline
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 Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
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| Coordinates: 6°48′S 39°17′E / 6.800°S 39.283°ECoordinates: 6°48′S 39°17′E / 6.800°S 39.283°E | |
| Country | Tanzania |
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| • Mayor | Isaya Mwita |
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| • City | 1,590.5 km2 (614.1 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0 km2 (0 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Metro | 4,364,541 |
| Time zone | GMT +3 |
| Climate | Tropical savanna (Aw) |
Dar es Salaam (from Arabic: دار السلام Dār as-Salām, literally "the abode of peace"; or simply Dar, formerly Mzizima) is the largest city of Tanzania and the largest city in eastern Africa by population, as well as a regionally important economic centre. It is Tanzania's most prominent city in arts, fashion, media, music, film and television. It is Tanzania's leading financial centre with the (DSE) being the country's first and most important stock exchange market. Dar es Salaam is the largest and most populous Swahili speaking city in the world.
It is the capital of the Dar es Salaam Region administrative province and consists of five boroughs or administrative districts: northern Kinondoni, central Ilala, Ubungo, southern Temeke, and Kigamboni. The city is the leading arrival and departure point for most tourists who visit tourism areas in Tanzania like the national parks for safaris and the islands of Zanzibar. The region had a population of 4,364,541 as of the official 2012 census. Although Dar es Salaam lost its status as the nation's capital to Dodoma in 1974 (not completed until 1996), it remains the focus of the permanent central government bureaucracy.
In the 19th century, Mzizima (Kiswahili for "healthy town") was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian Ocean trade routes. In 1865 or 1866, Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a new city very close to Mzizima and named it Dar es Salaam. The name is commonly translated as "abode/home of peace", based on the Arabic dar ("house"), and the Arabic es salaam ("of peace"). Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Majid's death in 1870, but was revived in 1887 when the German East Africa Company established a station there. The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.
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