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Nakuru (city)
Nakuru is a city in Kenya's Rift Valley, the capital of Nakuru County, made Kenya's fourth city on 1 December 2021 after Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu.
Nampula
Nampula (Capital do Norte) is the capital of Nampula Province, Mozambique, founded by the Portuguese army in 1907; third-largest city, 743,125 people (2017), on the Nacala Development Corridor.
Nansana
Nansana is a municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda, 9.6 km from Kampala on the Kampala–Hoima Road; created 9 September 2015 with four divisions and a 2024 census population of 692,478.
Navegantes, Benguela
Navegantes (Município dos Navegantes) is a coastal municipality in Benguela Province, Angola, created by Lei n.º 14/24; 2024 census: 240,075 people, 319.8 km², economy based on fishing, salt, and tourism.
Ndola
Ndola, Zambia's third largest city and Copperbelt provincial capital, 1,108 km² district on the DRC border; 627,503 residents (2022 census); industrial hub, slave-trade-era trading post, city status 1967.
Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
Newcastle is a city in north-western KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the province's third-largest urban center and biggest Amajuba District municipality, named after the Duke of Newcastle.
Njeru
Njeru is a municipality in Buikwe District, Uganda, elevated to municipal status in 2016; a manufacturing hub of about 160,000 people forming an agglomeration with Jinja City.
Nyeri
Nyeri, a highland town about 150 km north of Nairobi and headquarters of Nyeri County, Kenya, between Mount Kenya and the Aberdares; founded as a colonial fort in 1902, economy led by tea, coffee and dairy.
Paarl
Paarl, Western Cape city in South Africa's Cape Winelands, main town of Drakenstein Municipality about 60 km from Cape Town. Named 'pearl' in 1657; known for Paarl Rock, KWV wine headquarters, the Afrikaans Taalmonument, and Berg River vineyards.
Pemba
Pemba, formerly Porto Amélia, is the capital of Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, a port city on Pemba Bay; 2017 census 201,846, over 350,000 by 2025 with displaced arrivals; timber, graphite, and LNG servicing hub.
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg, also called uMgungundlovu, is the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, founded in 1838 and named after Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz; known for the 1893 Gandhi train incident and the Comrades Marathon.
Plettenberg Bay
Plettenberg Bay (Plett), Garden Route town in Western Cape, South Africa, under Bitou Municipality; renamed 1779 by Van Plettenberg; Blue Flag beaches, Robberg reserve, R4.7m average property prices, and strained water and housing supply.
Polokwane
Polokwane (formerly Pietersburg), meaning "Place of Safety" in Sotho, is the capital of South Africa's Limpopo province and its largest urban centre north of Gauteng, with about 629,000 municipal residents and a Sepedi-speaking majority.
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom, a city in South Africa's North West Province on the Mooi River, founded by Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter, proclaimed 22 December 1838, first Transvaal capital, now a North-West University town.
Pretoria
Pretoria (Tshwane), administrative capital of South Africa in northern Gauteng, founded 1855 by Marthinus Wessels Pretorius and named after Andries Pretorius; former ZAR capital, site of the 1902 Peace of Vereeniging.
Quelimane
Quelimane, capital of Zambezia Province, Mozambique; port city on the Rio dos Bons Sinais founded as a Portuguese ivory trading post in 1544; low-lying city of roughly 300,000 to 350,000 people with major flood exposure.
Ruiru
Ruiru is a municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 20 km northeast of Nairobi, an industrial and dormitory town of 490,120 people (2019 census) with factories, rapid unplanned growth, and major road and water projects.
Rustenburg
Rustenburg, a city in South Africa's North West province at the foot of the Magaliesberg, founded 1851, hub of the platinum belt; its local municipality NW373 in Bojanala District had 549,575 residents in 2011.
Shashamane
Shashamane (Shashemene, ሻሸመኔ) is a market city in West Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia, about 250 km south of Addis Ababa, known for the Rastafari settlement on land granted by Emperor Haile Selassie to the Ethiopian World Federation.
Siyu
Siyu is a Swahili settlement on Pate Island in Kenya's Lamu Archipelago, a former city-state known for resisting Omani rule and for its 19th-century Siyu Fort.
Sodo
Sodo (Wolaita Sodo) is a city in southern Ethiopia, capital of Wolaita Zone and the South Ethiopia regional state, about 330 km south of Addis Ababa; founded as a Menelik II military center, a six-route transport hub with rapid urban growth.
Solwezi
Solwezi: mining town and provincial capital of North-Western Province, Zambia, about 590 km from Lusaka; home of the Kansanshi copper mine, Africa's biggest by output, and the T5 highway.
Somerset West
Somerset West (Afrikaans: Somerset-Wes), Western Cape town about 45 km east of Cape Town in the Helderberg basin; municipality from 1903, part of City of Cape Town since 2000, known for Vergelegen wine estate and the N2.
Songea
Songea: capital of Ruvuma Region, southwestern Tanzania, on the A19 road; founded 1897 as a German military station, named after Nduna Songea Mbano; 286,285 residents (2022), 21 wards, Maji Maji memorial site.
Soyo
Soyo (formerly Santo António do Zaire) is a port city in Zaire Province, Angola, at the Congo River mouth; Diogo Cão landed there in 1482, and it now hosts the Port of Soyo, Kwanda base, and the Angola LNG plant.
Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch, Western Cape town founded 1679 by Simon van der Stel on the Eerste River, South Africa's second oldest town, home of Stellenbosch University, its wine route, and a R13 billion tourism economy.
Stone Town
Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe), the historic core of Zanzibar City, Tanzania: a Swahili coastal trading town of coral-rag architecture, carved doors, and sultanate monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 facing development and conservation pressures.
Sumbawanga
Sumbawanga, capital of Rukwa Region, Tanzania, on the Ufipa Plateau between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa; regional commercial center, 303,986 municipal population (2022), maize trade hub, 1,329 km2 township boundary.
Swakopmund
Swakopmund is a coastal resort town in western Namibia, founded in 1892 as a German colonial seaport, now the capital of the Erongo Region with about 76,000 residents.
Tabora
Tabora is a town and regional capital in west-central Tanzania, founded in 1852 by Arab traders as the caravan hub Kazeh; junction of the Central Line railway to Kigoma and Mwanza, 2022 municipal population 308,741.