List of cities in East Africa
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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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City Country Population (approximate)[1] Year of approximation Notes Area Image Addis Ababa Ethiopia 3,384,569 2008 Capital Horn of Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Antananarivo Madagascar 1,299,080 2013[2] Capital Indian Ocean islands Antananarivo, Madagascar Asmara Eritrea 963,000 2020[citation needed ] Capital Horn of Africa Asmara, Eritrea Berbera Somaliland 60753 2005 Horn of Africa Berbera, Somaliland Blantyre Malawi 994,500 2018 Southeast Africa Blantyre, Malawi Bujumbura Burundi 1,056,169 2019 Former capital Great Lakes Region Bujumbura, Burundi Dar es Salaam Tanzania 5,383,728 2022[3] Former Capital Great Lakes Region Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Dire Dawa Ethiopia 607,321 2008[citation needed ] Horn of Africa Dire Dawa, Ethiopia Djibouti City Djibouti 475,322 2009 Capital Horn of Africa Djibouti City, Djibouti Dodoma Tanzania 410,956 2012 Capital Great Lakes Region Dodoma, Tanzania Gitega Burundi 125,989 2019[4] Capital Great Lakes Region Gitega, Burundi Harare Zimbabwe 1,606,000 2016 Capital Southeast Africa Harare, Zimbabwe Hargeisa Somaliland 1,960,000 2019 Capital Horn of Africa Hargeisa, Somaliland Hobyo Somalia 1,211,800 N/A Horn of Africa The Beach at Hobyo, Somalia Juba South Sudan 525,953 2017 Capital Nile Valley Juba, South Sudan Kampala Uganda 1,507,114 2014 Capital Great Lakes Region Kampala, Uganda Keren Eritrea 146,483 2012 Horn of Africa Keren, Eritrea Khartoum Sudan 1,974,647 Capital Nile Valley Khartoum, Sudan Kigali Rwanda 1,132,686 2012 Capital Great Lakes Region Kigali, Rwanda Kisumu Kenya 1,268,826 2017 Great Lakes Region Kisumu, Kenya Kitwe Zambia 522,092 2010 Southeast Africa Kitwe, Zambia Lilongwe Malawi 1,227,100 2018 Capital Southeast Africa Lindi Tanzania 41,549 2002 Great Lakes Region Lindi, Tanzania Lusaka Zambia 1,742,979 2009 Capital Southeast Africa Lusaka, Zambia Mahajanga Madagascar 246022 2018 Indian Ocean islands Mahajanga, Madagascar Malakal South Sudan 147,450 2014 Nile Valley Mamoudzou Mayotte 71,437 2017 Capital Indian Ocean islands Mamoudzou, Mayotte Maputo Mozambique 1,101,170 2017 Capital Southeast Africa Maputo, Mozambique Mbarara Uganda 195,013 2014 Great Lakes Region Mbarara, Uganda Mogadishu Somalia 2,425,000 2017 Capital Horn of Africa Mogadishu, Somalia Mombasa Kenya 1,500,000 2017 Great Lakes Region Mombasa, Kenya Muhanga Rwanda 87,613 2015 Great Lakes Region Muhanga, Rwanda Moroni Comoros 54,000 2011[citation needed ] Capital Indian Ocean islands Moroni, Comoros Mutsamudu Comoros 25,471 2010 Indian Ocean islands Mutsamudu, Comoros Muyinga Burundi 100,715 2012 Great Lakes Region Mwanza Tanzania 706,543 2012 Great Lakes Region Mwanza, Tanzania Nacala Mozambique 225,034 2017 Southeast Africa Nacala, Mozambique Nairobi Kenya 6,448,342 2017 Capital Great Lakes Region Nairobi, Kenya Ngozi Burundi 86000 2017 Southeast Africa Omdurman Sudan 1,200,000 Nile Valley Omdurman, Sudan Port Louis Mauritius 149,194 2015 Capital Indian Ocean islands Port Louis, Mauritius Saint-Denis Réunion 146,985 2015 Capital Indiban Ocean islands Saint-Denis, Reunion Saint-Paul Réunion 104,646 2015 Indian Ocean islands Saint-Paul, Reunion Victoria Seychelles 26,450 2010 Capital Indian Ocean islands Victoria, Seychelles
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