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Dar es Salaam

Port, Tanzania, founded 1862.

About Dar es Salaam

Largest city in Tanzania and capital of Dar es Salaam Region.1

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Trade routes

Shipped throughKatanga copper via Lake Tanganyika to Dar es SalaamDar es Salaam was an end of the katanga copper via lake tanganyika to dar es salaam route.2Shipped throughZambian copper via TAZARA to Dar es SalaamDar es Salaam was an end of the zambian copper via tazara to dar es salaam route.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1960 (Dar es Salaam)
  2. Zaire SNCZ Railway Project, Staff Appraisal Report 1986-ZR (25 April 1979) World Bank
  3. 'Win-win' contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the 'Chinese of today' Journal of Modern African Studies 59(1) (Cambridge University Press)

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