Planned community

Planned capitals

Africa

Botswana

Egypt

• Port Fuad – Port Said Governorate.
• Port Tewfik – Suez Governorate
• Ismailia – Ismailia Governorate
• Ras Ghareb – Red Sea
• Mosta'maret al-Mahallah – Gahrbia
• Kima – Aswan
• Sahary – Aswan
• Mosta'maret al-Sad – Aswan

• 6th of October – Giza Governorate.
• 10th of Ramadan – Sharqia Governorate.
• 15th of May – Cairo Governorate.
• Badr – Cairo Governorate.
• New Borg El Arab – Alexandria Governorate.
• El Shorouk – Cairo Governorate.
• New Akhmim – Sohag Governorate.
• New Aswan – Aswan Governorate.
• New Asyut – Asyut Governorate.
• New Beni Suef – Beni Suef Governorate.
• New Cairo – Cairo Governorate.
• New Damietta – Damietta Governorate.
• New Fayum – Fayum Governorate.
• New Nubariya – Beheira Governorate.
• New Qena – Qena Governorate.
• New Salhia – Sharqia Governorate.
• New Tiba – Luxor Governorate.
• Obour – Qalubyia Governorate.
• Sheikh Zayed City – Giza Governorate.

  NUCs under construction

• New Administrative Capital – Cairo
• New Alamein – Matrouh
• New Ismailia – Ismailia
• El Galala – Suez

  Pre-modern

• Memphis, Egypt – The first capital of Egypt. It was built by the king Narmer around 3150 B.C.
• Akhetaten – A city which was built by the King Akhenaten in the 14th century B.C. It was the capital of Egypt in his reign.
• Pithom – A city was built by the King Ramesses II in the 13th century B.C.
• Pi-Ramesses – Another city which was built by Ramesses II in the 13th century B.C. It was the capital of Egypt in his reign and it was the first city to exceed 100,000 in history. At its peak, the population of the city was 300,000.
• Heracleion – A city built in the 7th Century B.C. The city had been a major port in Ancient before it sank.
• Alexandria – A city built by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. It was the first city to have a population of half million.
• Ptolemais Hermiou – A city built by Ptolemy I in the 4th century B.C.
• Berenice Troglodytica – A city built by Ptolemy I in the 3rd century B.C. on the Red Sea Coast.
• Fustat – A city built by 'Amr ibn al-'As when he conquered Egypt to be its capital around the 7th century A.C.
• al-Askar – The capital of Egypt during the Tulunide Dynasty.
• al-Qata'i – Capital of Egypt during the Ikhshid Dynasty.
• Cairo – It was built in the 10th century A.D. by the Fatimid Caliph Al Muizz.

  Equatorial Guinea

Kenya

Nigeria

• Abuja, one of the most populous planned cities, and the fastest growing city in the world.
• Banana Island, an affluent neighbourhood in Ikoyi, Lagos, Lagos State
• Bonny Island in Rivers State
• Centenary City in the Federal Capital Territory
• Eko Atlantic in Lagos State
• Festac Town in Lagos, Lagos State
• * FESTAC Phase 2, the next phase for Festac has been proposed.
• Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State
• Lekki, a new city in Lagos State
• * Lekki Free Zone, a free trade zone in the Lekki
• * Orange Island, a planned real estate development in Lekki.
• Victoria Island in Lagos, Lagos State

  Senegal

• Akon City, the nation's first planned city, co-planned by the Senegalese-American singer Akon.

  South Africa

Asia

Azerbaijan

• Sumqayit was planned as an industrial city to support the Soviet Union's petrochemical industry. It became one of Azerbaijan's major industrial centers, housing factories and workers' residential areas.
• Mingachevir was established in the 1940s as a planned city to serve as the center for Azerbaijan's hydroelectric power production, hosting the Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Station, one of the largest in the country.
• Ganja underwent urban planning during the Soviet period, with the development of modern infrastructure including residential and commercial districts, along with the expansion of industrial facilities to support the growing population.
• Shirvan was developed as an industrial city, with a focus on chemical and agricultural industries. The city's growth was part of the Soviet-era initiative to establish more industrial hubs in Azerbaijan.
• Gabala, once a small town, is undergoing urbanization with modern infrastructure projects aimed at transforming it into a major tourist and cultural center while still preserving its natural surroundings.
• Khirdalan, located near Baku, was developed as a satellite city to ease the population pressure in the capital. The city has seen significant growth with new residential areas and local amenities.

  Hong Kong

• Tsuen Wan New Town
• Sha Tin New Town
• Tuen Mun New Town
• Tai Po New Town
• Fanling-Sheung Shui New Town
• Yuen Long New Town
• Tseung Kwan O New Town
• Tin Shui Wai New Town
• North Lantau New Town

  Indonesia

• Jakarta
• * Batavia was a planned city, modeled after Dutch 17th century coastal city architecture. First, in the 17th century as a planned fortified city, crisscrossed with Dutch-style canals dug in regular grid. The city served as the administrative center of Dutch East India Company.
• * In the early 19th century, the Dutch colonial authority moved their administrative center from the dilapidated and unhealthy port town of Old Batavia several kilometres south to Weltevreden area. Old Batavia and Weltevreden were connected by the Molenvliet Canal and a road that ran alongside the waterway. It was a well-planned community around the Koningsplein, the Waterlooplein and Rijswijk. The area, then known as Weltevreden, which include the Koningsplein, Rijswijk, Noordwijk, Tanah Abang, Kebon Sirih, and Prapatan became a popular residential, entertainment and commercial district for the European colonial elite.
• * Menteng, today a sub-district in Central Jakarta, was first built as a well-planned community. An urban design developed in the 1910s set the area to become a residential area for Dutch people and high officials. At the time of its development, the area was the first planned garden suburb in colonial Batavia. Supported by easy access to service centers and nearby to the central business district, this area has become one of the most expensive areas for residential real estate in modern Jakarta.
• In the early 20th century, Bandung was planned by the Dutch East Indies government as a new capital city to replace Batavia. The idea was to separate the busy trading port or the commercial center from the new administrative and political center. By the 1920s the plan to transfer the capital to Bandung was underway. As the city began to laid the master plan of a well-planned new city, grid of streets and avenues were laid, and numbers of government buildings were constructed, such as Gedung Sate that was planned as the colonial administrative center of Dutch East Indies. The plan, however, failed due to the Great Depression and the outbreak of the Second World War.
• Since Palangkaraya was established as the capital of Central Kalimantan province in 1957, the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, outlined a plan to develop Palangkaraya as the future capital of Indonesia. Palangkaraya is far larger in area than Jakarta and safe from the danger of earthquakes and volcanoes, common on the island of Java.
• In the late 1950s to the first half of the 1960s, Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, laid a master plan to build Jakarta as the planned national capital of the Republic of Indonesia. He filled Jakarta with numbers of monuments and statues. Numbers of monumental projects were conceived, planned and initiated during his administration, including Monumen Nasional, Istiqlal mosque, DPR/MPR Building, and Gelora Bung Karno stadium. Sukarno also filled Jakarta with nationalistic monuments and statues, including Selamat Datang Monument, Pemuda Monument at Senayan, Dirgantara Monument at Pancoran, and Irian Jaya Liberation Monument at Lapangan Banteng. Although many of this projects were completed later in his successor era, Sukarno is credited for shaping Jakarta's monuments and landmarks. He desired Jakarta to be the beacon of a powerful new nation.
• Because of Jakarta's environmental degradation and overpopulation problems, there has been an idea to build a new proposed capital city to replace Jakarta. In 2019, President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia will move its capital from Jakarta to the new planned city in the East Kalimantan province which will be built in between the regencies of Penajam North Paser and Kutai Kartanegara. Its construction will commence in 2020. The new national capital will be called Nusantara and it is set to be inaugurated in 2024 with the groundbreaking ceremony in March 2022. The capital is expected to form a new province separated from East Kalimantan, similar to Jakarta.