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[[Image:Turf.PNG|thumb|250 px|right|The multiplayer map Turf, showcasing the architecture of Old Mombasa.]]

'''Old Mombasa''' is the older, more run-down sector of [[New Mombasa]], located across Kilindini Harbor on the African mainland. While New Mombasa was a dynamic, cosmopolitan city, Old Mombasa was much more dilapidated.

*[[Grid Kilo 23]]

*[[Liberty Street]]

**[[Hotel Zanzibar]]

**[[Voi Theater]]

[[Image:Hotelz2rw.jpg|left|thumb|140px|[[Hotel Zanzibar]] in Old Mombasa.]]

The mainland districts were stifled, ironically, by their thrist for growth. During the 21st and 22nd centuries, sea levels worldwide began rising due to global warming. Port cities around the planet were faced with a choice: construct flood control measures, or drown. In Mombasa, it was decided that, rather than shore up the old docks on Mombasa Island, it would be easier to build brand new ports on the mainland, southwest of the city. So massive seawalls were built to hold back the rising waters, and new dock structures extended out into Kilindini Harbor.

By [[2552]], Old Mombasa, as the mainland came to be called, had remained much the same. Its architecture is an odd hodgepodge of old and new: 16th-century Muslim arcades, aging 21st-century office buildings, looming 26th-century power couplings. Old concrete homes secured with computerized locks. Clotheslines strung next to power lines. Mechanical gates set into ancient brick walls. The culture also seems displaced; while New Mombasa is populated with industrial workers and ambitious cosmopolitans, Old Mombasa is considered to be more of a slum.<ref>Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa, [[Halo Graphic Novel]]</ref>

[[Image:Halo2-05.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Master Chief]] fighting his way through Old Mombasa]]

The [[Master Chief|Master Chief's]] [[Pelican]], shot down by a [[Covenant]] [[Scarab]], crash-landed in Old Mombasa Sector 0-5. The level [[Outskirts]] starts at this point. Throughout the rest of the mission, the Chief, accompanied by [[Avery J. Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]] and a number of UNSC Marines, fights through the slums of the old city, to the Hotel Zanzibar, out onto the beaches, and finally into the underground highway system that connects the city to [[New Mombasa]].

Old Mombasa is presumed destroyed or at least heavily damaged by the blast wave unleashed by the escape of [[Prophet of Regret|Regret's]] ship.

*[[New Mombasa]]

*[[District (Level)]]

*[[Wikipedia:Mombasa Island]]  

[[Category:Places]]