Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
GMP per capita (2011) US$19,656 [9] Website. capetown.gov.za. Cape Town[a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [12] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [13]
Ouagadougou was founded possibly as early as 1050 CE by the Soninke Wangara diaspora from the Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadu. The name Wagadugu means 'home of the Wagu', the Soninke subgroup that ruled Ghana. [4][5] Ouagadougou is a Francophone spelling of this name. The Mossi people, moving north in the 14th century, conquered Wagadugu ...
nairobi.go.ke. Nairobi (/ naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city.
Dakar (/ d ɑː ˈ k ɑːr, d æ-/ UK also: / ˈ d æ k ɑːr /; [4] French:; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of ...
Dakar (9 C, 22 P) Dar es Salaam (13 C, 32 P) Djibouti City (4 C, 5 P) Dodoma (4 C, 21 P)
Kampala is home to the City Oilers, one of East Africa's top basketball club teams. It is the only East African team that competes in the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. The Oilers play their home games in the MTN Arena, which is based in Kampala's Lugogo Area. [59] The city hosted the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2017.
Abuja (/ əˈbuːdʒə /) [ 4 ] is the capital city of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, [ 5 ] strategically situated at the geographic midpoint of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria, it hosts key national institutions, landmarks, and buildings spread across its over 50 districts.
Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa (/ ˌædɪs ˈæbəbə /; [5] Amharic: አዲስ አበባ, lit. 'new flower' [adˈdis ˈabəba] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. [6][7][8] In the 2007 census, the city's population was estimated to be 2,739,551 inhabitants. [2] Addis Ababa is a highly developed [9] and important cultural, artistic ...