NairobiWalker
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- Oct 31, 2012
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This confirms the point we've been telling your brothers yet they either feign or fail to understand.Let’s break down this photograph, shall we?
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First, we need to understand that that the “earth at night” map is an excellent way to show urban sprawl. Nairobi’s sprawl looks bigger because it’s not just Nairobi we’re looking at. It’s the greater Nairobi metropolitan area, which has 20% of Kenya’s population and contributes 60% to the nation’s GDP.
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Dar’s sprawl, however, looks like it covers almost the entirety of the Dar es salaam region, the smallest of all in mainland Tanzania. It also extends a bit farther north towards Bagamoyo, west towards Kibaha. The population of that region is roughly 7 million, which is about 12% of Tanzania’s population.
So, the area surrounding Nairobi has a lot more people than the area surrounding Dar. Therefore, why would anyone compare the night maps of Dar and Nairobi? The two cities are certainly not the same. Please end this stupidity. Don’t compare a metropolitan area to a city. That’s just ludicrous!
Dar City is bigger than Nairobi City
Dar Metro is smaller than Nairobi Metro.
I'm glad you put it out very clearly.


