Quick Read. African Capital Cities Batch 2 extends the continental spine with 25 more capital and counter-capital nodes. Its strongest contribution is distributed national-command logic: one country may deliberately spread executive, legislative, judicial, commercial and port functions across several cities.
25 new city nodes
- Monrovia
- Tripoli
- Antananarivo
- Lilongwe
- Bamako
- Nouakchott
- Port Louis
- Rabat
- Maputo
- Windhoek
- Niamey
- Kigali
- São Tomé
- Dakar
- Victoria
- Freetown
- Mogadishu
- Pretoria
- Cape Town
- Bloemfontein
- Juba
- Khartoum
- Dodoma
- Dar es Salaam
- Lomé
Web routes
- Distributed national command: Pretoria ↔ Cape Town ↔ Bloemfontein.
- Political/commercial split: Dodoma ↔ Dar es Salaam; Rabat ↔ Casablanca; Lilongwe ↔ Blantyre.
- Sahel river/corridor capitals: Bamako ↔ Niamey ↔ Nouakchott.
- Indian Ocean island capitals: Port Louis ↔ Victoria ↔ São Tomé / wider island-capital graph.
- Conflict/reconstruction: Tripoli ↔ Mogadishu ↔ Juba ↔ Khartoum.
- Atlantic port capitals: Monrovia ↔ Freetown ↔ Dakar ↔ Lomé.
Hidden routes
South Africa is the crucial non-flat case: national command is intentionally distributed across three capitals while Johannesburg remains the dominant corporate-financial metropolis. Tanzania gives a different version: political capital and commercial-port centrality split between Dodoma and Dar es Salaam. These should be stored as function edges, never as rival answers to one capital field.
Deep route
Connect this batch through Split-Capital Systems, Port Capitals, River Capitals, Capital Cities Fail and AI City Representation.
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