Dar es Salaam, formerly Mzizima, is Tanzania's largest and richest city, a regionally important economic centre. It is in the Dar es Salaam Region administrative province, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: northern Kinondoni, central Ilala, and southern Temeke. The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 4,364,541 as of the official 2012 census. Though Dar es Salaam lost its status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974, it remains the locus of the permanent central government bureaucracy, and as the capital of the region.
