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.
List of capital cities
See also
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List of metropolitan areas in Africa
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Lists of cities in Africa
The following are lists of cities in Africa.
Countries
*List of cities in Algeria
* List of cities in Angola
*List of cities in Benin
* List of cities in Botswana
*List of cities in Burkina Faso
* List of cities in Burundi
* List of municipalit ...
, mostly by country
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List of largest cities in the Arab world
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Urbanization in Africa
The urbanization of most of Africa is moving fast forward, especially south of the Sahara. It is estimated that in 1900, about 89% of inhabitants lived from the primary occupations of farming, hunting & gathering, cattle nomadism, and fishing (A ...
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References
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Cities
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
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