Dodoma, officially Dodoma City, is the capital city of Tanzania. With a population of 765,179, it is also the administrative capital of both Dodoma Municipal Council and the entire Dodoma Region. On July 2024, it was official that Dodoma has surpassed Arusha to become the third largest city in Tanzania on both infrastructure and population measures. In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that Tanzania's federal capital would be moved from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma for social and economic reasons and to centralise the capital within the country. It became the official capital in 1996.
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