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About Dar es Salaam Region
Dar es Salaam is the largest city and business capital of Tanzania. With over six million people, it is the largest city in East Africa and the fifth-largest in Africa. On the Swahili coast, Dar es Salaam is an important economic centre and one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. According to the UN population projection, the city is expected to host approximately 73 million people in 2100, more than the whole population of the country today at 61 million people.
The town was founded by the first Sultan of Zanzibar in 1865 or 1866. It was the main administrative and commercial center of German East Africa, Tanganyika, and Tanzania. The decision was made in 1974 to move the capital to Dodoma and was officially completed in 1996.
Dar es Salaam is Tanzania’s most prominent city for the arts, fashion, media, film, and television, as well as serving as its leading financial centre. It is the capital of the co-extensive Dar es Salaam Region, one of Tanzania’s 31 administrative regions, and consists of five districts: Kinondoni in the north; Ilala in the centre; Ubungo and Temeke in the south; and Kigamboni in the east across the Kurasini estuary.
In the 19th century, Mzizima (Swahili for “healthy town”) was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian Ocean trade routes. In 1865 or 1866, Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a new city very close to Mzizima and named it Dar es Salaam. The name is commonly translated from Arabic as “abode (home) of peace”, from dar (“house”), and es salaam (“of peace”). Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Majid’s death in 1870, but was revived in 1887 when the German East Africa Company established a station there. The town’s growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion following the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.
Dar es Salaam Region Contact Information
- S.L.P. 5429,Ofisi ya Mkuu wa Mkoa
- Telephone: +255 22 2203158
- Mobile: +255 22 2203156
- Fax: +255 22 2203213
- Email: ras@dsm.go.tz
- Complain: complaint@dsm.go.tz
Vacancies and Internships at Dar es Salaam – Nafasi za Kazi Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam Region job vacancies are normally advertised through the Dar es Salaam Official website which can be accessed through this link : http://www.dsm.go.tz/
Also, Government jobs in Dar es Salaam region are normally advertised through the government Official jobs portal (Public Service Recruitment Secretariat-PSRS) which can be accessed through this link- https://ajira.go.tz/.
Find and apply for various Companies, Government Institutions and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Job Vacancies advertised in Dar es Salaam region by browsing through the links listed below
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Dar es Salaam useful links
- Dar es Salaam website: http://www.dsm.go.tz/
- Dar es Salaam job vacancies – careers page: https://ajira.go.tz/
