Dodoma

Dodoma, population 324,347 ( 2002 census), is the national capital of Tanzania and also the capital of the Dodoma Region. 157,469 people (48.5 percent of the total population) are male while 166,878 people (51.5 percent) are female. The estimated total number of households is 74,914 with an average household size of 4.3 people. Dodoma is located at 6°15′S 35°45′E. [1]

The town is 486 kilometres west of the former capital at Dar es Salaam and 441 kilometres south of Arusha, the headquarter of the East African Community. It covers an area of 2,669 square kilometres of which 625 square kilometres is urbanised. In 1973, plans were made to move the capital to Dodoma. Tanzania's National Assembly moved there in February 1996, but many government offices remain in the original national capital, Dar-es-Salaam.