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Tanga
Tanga is a port city and regional capital on northeastern Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast, the country's second largest port. Former German East Africa's first military post and a historic sisal exporter; 393,429 city residents (2022 census).
Tete (city)
Tete (city), capital of Tete Province, Mozambique, on the right bank of the Zambezi; old Portuguese settlement (fort 1572, town 1761) and hub of the Moatize coal frontier, population about 306,000.
Thika
Thika is an industrial town in Kiambu County, Kenya, on the A2 road about 42 km northeast of Nairobi, known for pineapple processing and agriculture-based industry.
Toliara
Toliara (Tuléar) is a port city on Madagascar's southwest coast, capital of Atsimo-Andrefana region, ~180,000-250,000 people, semi-arid climate, home of the Great Reef of Toliara and the Toliara mineral sands project.
Upington
Upington, Northern Cape town on the Orange River (formerly Olijvenhoutsdrift, founded 1884, named for Sir Thomas Upington); center of Green Kalahari grape, raisin and wine farming, hot desert climate, and a solar-energy and airport cargo hub.
Vereeniging
Vereeniging: industrial city on the Vaal River in Gauteng, South Africa, in Emfuleni Municipality, Sedibeng District. Founded 1882 on coal; site of the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging peace talks ending the Second Boer War.
Warder
Warder: town in Ethiopia's Somali Region near the Somalia border, a pastoralist market center in the Dollo/Doolo zone with a hot desert climate, chronic water-supply gaps, and major drought-resilience programs.
Welkom
Welkom (Afrikaans for 'welcome') is South Africa's second-largest Free State city, founded 1947-1948 by Anglo-American as a planned gold-mining company town known for traffic circles, the 1976 magnitude 5.2 earthquake, the 1990 tornado, and post-1980s mining decline.
Windhoek
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia, in the central highlands at about 1,650 m. Known for the 1890 Alte Feste fort, Katutura's history, and pioneering direct potable wastewater reuse since 1968.
Winejok
Winejok, also spelled Wanyjok, is a city located in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, serving as the county headquarters since 1993.
Yei
Yei: city in Central Equatoria, South Sudan, headquarters of Yei River County, about 150 km southwest of Juba. SPLA captured it in 1997; 2016 conflict displaced much of its population; UN-based 2025 city estimate 228,087.
Zanzibar City
Zanzibar City (Mji wa Zanzibar), largest city of Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Unguja island; its UNESCO-listed Stone Town core had 113,119 city-proper residents in 2022, with tourism driving the economy and BIG-Z funding urban renewal.
Zeila
Zeila, also known as Seylac or Zaylaʿ, is a port town on the Gulf of Aden in Somaliland that served for centuries as the main trade outlet for the Ethiopian interior.