Dar es Salaam Region

Dar es Salaam Region (Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions and is located in the east coast of the country. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land and water areas of the nation state of Mauritius Dar es Salaam Region is bordered to the east by Indian Ocean and it is entirely surrounded by Pwani Region. The Pwani districts that border Dar es Salaam region are Bagamoyo District to the north, Kibaha Urban District to the west, Kisarawe District to the south west and Mkuranga District to the south of the region. The region's seat (capital) is located inside the ward of Ilala. The region is named after the city of Dar es Salaam itself. The region is home to Tanzania's major finance, administration and industries, thus the making it the country's richest region. The region also has the second highest Human Development Index in the country after Mjini Magharibi. According to the 2022 census, the region has a total population of 5,383,728 and national census of 2012 had 4,364,541. The region has the highest population in Tanzania followed by Mwanza Region. History Mzizima(Mji Mzima), which means "a healthy town" in Kiswahili, was the original name of the area that is now known as Dar es Salaam. It dates back to 1857. Later, it was the location of plantations where maize, millet, and cassava were grown for the rapidly changing coastal region. Majid bin Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar (c. 1834–1870), officially founded the city Dar es Salaam, with an Arabic name that translates as "haven of peace," in 1866. The city saw a fall following the Sultan's death in 1870, but when the German East Africa Company opened a trade post there in 1887, the city's fortunes were turned around. Dar es Salaam developed become the colony's commercial and administrative hub as German colonial rule in East Africa progressed. In 1900, it was designated as the eastern end of the interior-bound Central Railway Line. During World War I, British forces seized control of Dar es Salaam and German East Africa. They gave the colony a new name—Tanganyika—but kept Dar es Salaam as the seat of government. The city's informal residential segregation, which had started under the Germans, was made legal by the British AIso. They created two native Sections (Kariakoo and Ilala) in addition to a European one (Oyster Bay). Asians eventually received their own area, namely Upanga.