Section 5 · FROM ZERO TO 10 MILLION
Umoja City — the Central Planned Metropolis
A new city built on empty land at the center of Enat Hager, on the Albertine Rift plateau east of Kigali. It is designed as the union's economic engine, a place where the 8 HSR lines, the freight spines, Inga hydropower and the HGR Wallet all meet. Target: 10,000,000 citizens within 25 years .
TARGET POPULATION
10.0M
BUILT-UP AREA
~1,250 km²
at 8,000 people/km²
HOMES NEEDED
2.5M
at 4 people/household
AVG. NEW RESIDENTS
400k / yr
over 25 years
Population Ramp (illustrative plan)
Millions of residents by year after groundbreaking
Three Build Phases
8 Districts · 10.0M Residents
Each district is a walkable cluster of 600k–1.9M people with its own HSR-linked metro station
Infrastructure at 10 Million (planning assumptions)
Cashless by Design
Umoja issues every resident an HGR Wallet on arrival. Rent, metro and HSR fares, utilities, wages and market stalls all run on mobile money from day one, and there are no cash-only districts.
Realism check