Lagos is projected to be one of the ten biggest cities in the world in 2050. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census, while the metropolitan area has a population of 9,354,580. Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya. In 2020 the Urban area population was over 5 million inhabitants. It has officially been designated as the 'economic capital' of the country. Ivory Coast Īccording to the 2014 census, Abidjan's population was 4.7 million, which is 20 percent of the overall population of the country, and this also makes it the sixth most populous city proper in Africa, after Lagos, Cairo, Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam, and Johannesburg. Ghana Īccra is an economic and administrative hub, and serves as the anchor of the larger Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA). As of 2008 the metro population is approximately 4.5 million. Egypt Ĭairo and Alexandria are considered Egypt's biggest metropolises.Īddis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia, and where the African Union is headquartered. It is projected to be one of the ten biggest cities in the world in 2050. Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest urban area after Cairo and Lagos. Kinshasa is a megacity with a population of about 15 million. Its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world, with over 8.3 million inhabitants. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Luanda is the capital and largest city in Angola. Described as 'a more sympathetic generation of scholars', some have defended the frequently maligned peasant class, noting that modern cultural attitudes may be evolving compared to the early Industrial age. Metropolises are often described as cultural centers but this view has been challenged and disputed. This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation.

The word has distant roots in the colonial past of Ancient Greece with first usage in Middle English around the 14th century. In a colonial context, it is the 'mother city' of a colony, that is, the city which sent out settlers. This usage equates the province with the diocese or episcopal see. The word was used in post-classical Latin for the chief city of a province, the seat of the government and, in particular, ecclesiastically for the seat or see of a metropolitan bishop to whom suffragan bishops were responsible. Metropolis (μητρόπολις) is a Greek word, coming from μήτηρ, mḗtēr meaning 'mother' and πόλις, pólis meaning 'city' or 'town', which is how the Greek colonies of antiquity referred to their original cities, with whom they retained cultic and political-cultural connections.

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