Dar es-Salaam

Dar es-Salaam (Arabic: دار السلام, meaning: Place of Peace) is the largest megacity in Tanzania and the East African Protectorate. Established by Majid bin Said of Zanzibar in the mid-1860s, Dar es-Salaam grew to prominence as a trade city during German colonization. By the late twenty-first century, the city's population boomed into the world's most populous and developed a heated rivalry with Mombasa. The pair of cities eventually transformed the incorporated East African Protectorate of the United Earth Government, making the nation among the most prosperous on Earth.

During the Battle for Earth, the city was evacuated in the face of Covenant invasion but, while ransacked by raiding parties, managed to avoid the same destruction that befell Mombasa. Dar es-Salaam temporarily served as the security center for the Excession and housed Concord representatives. After the Human-Covenant War, the city became home to millions of Mombasa refugees and the first Earth-side alien refugee epicenter due to the surrender of Covenant forces. Dar es-Salaam's industrial community played a key role in and funded construction for the Zanzibar Tether in the late 2550s.