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Factors influencing the growth of major urban centres in East Africa.

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Factors influencing the Growth of Major urban Centres in E. Africa.
1. Rural to urban migration when young people complete formal schooling and migrate to major towns to look for employment causing population to expand in those towns.
2. Natural growth of urban population through births because most of migrants are young couples who are at their height of their reproductive years.
3. Industrialization which attracts people because they offer employment opportunities.
4. Some have emerged due to mining as it attracts workers who move and settle in the mining area.
5. Tourism whereby influx of tourists to a town can cause demand for high class hotels, curio shops, entertainment e.t.c, which make the town to
grow e.g. Malindi and Mombasa.
6. Agriculture can make a town to grow by providing market for industrial products from urban centres and by providing raw materials foe industries established in urban areas.