SCTS+Location



=__**W**__elcome to our SCTS Location page!! On this Page you will learn where many of the trading posts were. You will also learn the names of the many City-States.=

Many of the trading posts were located in coastal Kenya (East Africa) and Tanzania. Many Swahili civilizations spread southwards until they hit [|Zanzibar]. The people in the Swahili Kingdom lived from Somalia to Mozambique. If you don't know where Africa is, it is below Europe.
 * Location:**

The picture below is a picture of the Swahili Kingdom.

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The Swahili kingdom had very many city-states. All of the city-states were located within the Swahili Kingdom. The main city-states were [|Mogadishu], Barawa, [|Mombasa] (Kenya), Gedi, [|Pate], Malindi, [|Zanzibar], Kilwa, and Sofala. Mogadishu is located 140 miles (225km) north of the equator on the south-eastern coast of Africa. Mombasa is the second largest city-state in Kenya and it is a very busy seaport on the East coast of Africa. That means that there was a lot of trading going on in that region of the Swahili Kingdom.
 * City-States:**

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URL: http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/images/Swahili.GIF