List of cities in East Africa

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.

List of capital cities

City	Country	Population (approximate)[1]	Year of approximation	Notes	Area	Image
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	5,704,000[2]	2008	Capital	Horn of Africa
Antananarivo	Madagascar	4,049,000[3]	2013[4]	Capital	Indian Ocean islands
Asmara	Eritrea	1,112,000[5]	2020[citation needed]	Capital	Horn of Africa
Blantyre	Malawi	994,500	2018		Southeast Africa
Bujumbura	Burundi	1,056,169	2019	Former capital	Great Lakes Region
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	8,383,728	2022[6]	Former capital	Great Lakes Region
Dire Dawa	Ethiopia	607,321	2008[citation needed]		Horn of Africa
Djibouti City	Djibouti	475,322	2009	Capital	Horn of Africa
Dodoma	Tanzania	410,956	2012	Capital	Great Lakes Region
Gitega	Burundi	125,989	2019[7]	Capital	Great Lakes Region
Harare	Zimbabwe	1,606,000	2016	Capital	Southeast Africa
Hargeisa	Somaliland	1,960,000	2019	Capital	Horn of Africa
Juba	South Sudan	525,953	2017	Capital	Nile Valley
Kampala	Uganda	1,507,114	2014	Capital	Great Lakes Region
Keren	Eritrea	146,483	2012		Horn of Africa
Kigali	Rwanda	1,132,686	2012	Capital	Great Lakes Region
Kisumu	Kenya	1,268,826	2017		Great Lakes Region
Kitwe	Zambia	522,092	2010		Southeast Africa
Lilongwe	Malawi	1,227,100	2018	Capital	Southeast Africa
Lindi	Tanzania	41,549	2002		Great Lakes Region
Lusaka	Zambia	1,742,979	2009	Capital	Southeast Africa
Mahajanga	Madagascar	246022	2018		Indian Ocean islands
Malakal	South Sudan	147,450	2014		Nile Valley
Mamoudzou	Mayotte	71,437	2017	Capital	Indian Ocean islands
Maputo	Mozambique	1,101,170	2017	Capital	Southeast Africa
Mbarara	Uganda	195,013	2014		Great Lakes Region
Mogadishu	Somalia	2,425,000	2017	Capital	Horn of Africa
Mombasa	Kenya	1,500,000	2017		Great Lakes Region
Muhanga	Rwanda	87,613	2015		Great Lakes Region
Moroni	Comoros	54,000	2011[citation needed]	Capital	Indian Ocean islands
Mutsamudu	Comoros	25,471	2010		Indian Ocean islands
Muyinga	Burundi	100,715	2012		Great Lakes Region
Mwanza	Tanzania	706,543	2012		Great Lakes Region
Nacala	Mozambique	225,034	2017		Southeast Africa
Nairobi	Kenya	5,541,000[8]	2017	Capital	Great Lakes Region
Ngozi	Burundi	86000	2017		Southeast Africa
Port Louis	Mauritius	149,194	2015	Capital	Indian Ocean islands
Saint-Denis	Réunion	146,985	2015	Capital	Indian Ocean islands
Saint-Paul	Réunion	104,646	2015		Indian Ocean islands
Victoria	Seychelles	26,450	2010	Capital	Indian Ocean islands

See also

• Africa portal
• Cities portal

• List of metropolitan areas in Africa
• Lists of cities in Africa, mostly by country
• List of largest cities in the Arab world
• Urbanization in Africa
• List of largest cities in Africa [de]