 Dodoma was envisaged as a nation-building project to cement a newly post-colonial independence identity and direction in Tanzania, and is similar to projects in Nigeria (Abuja), Botswana (Gaborone), Malawi (Lilongwe) and Mauritania (Nouakchott).Out of the total population, 199,487 people (48.5 percent) are male while 211,469 people (51.5 percent) are female.The average household size is 4.4 people.