Dar es Salaam ACRC African Cities
Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest city by far, at almost three times the size of the second largest, Mwanza. Download the city scoping study. Given its name meaning the 'haven of peace' in 1866 by the Sultan of Zanzibar, the settlement of Dar es Salaam became the administrative and commercial centre of the colony ...