Bella City.
Within East Africa's national framework, Bella City occupied a rather special position. It was one of the central cities of the southeastern coastal region, linking the important northern port of Dar es Salaam and the southern port of Maputo.
Over the past decade, Bella City had been East Africa's fastest-growing city. Its population had now surpassed 300,000. As the fastest route to the sea for industrial goods from Bohemia and the Lorraine industrial region, among other areas—Zimbabwe and eastern Botswana—Bella handled nearly the majority of freight trade for the central industrial region.
Bella City's new mayor, Kelta, said, "At present, this city's economic level is continuously rising. It has already become the nation's leading export port for key materials from the central region, including sugar, tobacco, copper ore, and machinery. Among the eastern coastal cities, it ranks behind only Mombasa city, Dar es Salaam city, and New Hamburg City. During the First Five-Year Plan, our city's industry and economy will certainly surpass New Hamburg City's, making us East Africa's third city on the eastern coast."
Relying on the central industrial region, Bella City was very likely to become a major city comparable to—or even surpassing—Mombasa or Dar es Salaam in the future, because the central industrial region currently ranked first in industrial strength across East Africa.
Whether it was Dar es Salaam city or southern cities like Maputo City, none could pose effective competition to Port of Beira. Indeed, due to Port of Beira's rise, even some goods from areas that had belonged to Zambia and southern Congo in the previous life preferred to be exported through it. Thus, Bella City's rise truly posed the greatest threat to Dar es Salaam city.
In the previous life, there had been many countries within East Africa. For various reasons, these