Dar es Salaam is actually an administrative province within Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts
Kinondoni to the north,
Ilala in the centre of the region, and
Temeke to the south. It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important economic centre. The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 2,497,940 as of the official
2002 Census.
Dar es Salaam is the largest city in
Tanzania.
It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important
economic centre. Dar es Salaam is an administrative province within
Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative
districts:
Kinondoni to the north,
Ilala in the centre of the region, and
Temeke
to the south. The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 2,497,940 as
of the official 2002 census. Though Dar es Salaam lost its official
status as capital city to
Dodoma
in 1974 (a move which was not complete until 1996), it remains the
centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to
serve as the capital for the surrounding
Dar es Salaam Region.
History
In the 19th century Mzizima (
Swahili for "healthy town") was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of
Indian Ocean trade routes.
[1][2] In 1865 or 1866 Sultan
Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a new city very close to Mzizima
[2]
and named it Dar es Salaam. The name is commonly translated as
"harbor/haven of peace" or "abode/home of peace", based on the
Persian/Arabic
bandar ("harbor") or the Arabic
dar ("house"), and the Arabic
es salaam ("of peace") (cf. "
Dar as-Salam").
[2][3] 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.
Saint Joseph's Metropolitan Cathedral constructed in 1897-1902
German East Africa was captured by the British during
World War I and from then on was referred to as
Tanganyika. Dar es Salaam was retained as the territory's administrative and commercial centre. Under British
indirect rule, separate European (e.g.
Oyster Bay) and African (e.g.
Kariakoo and
Ilala)
areas developed at a distance from the city centre. The town's
population also included a large number of South Asians. After World War
II, Dar es Salaam experienced a period of rapid growth.
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