The
Republic of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
is broken down into 10 administrative
provinces
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
, which are divided into 59 districts and 1,200
wards.
Bulawayo Province
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Bulawayo
Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council cl ...
Harare Province
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Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
Manicaland Province
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Buhera
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Chimanimani
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Chipinge
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Makoni
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Mutare
Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban area, urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 ...
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Mutasa
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Nyanga Nyanga may mean:
*Nyanga Province, of Gabon
* Nyanga River, in Gabon and Congo
*Nyanga people, an ethnic group from Congo
*Nyanga, Zimbabwe, a town
*Nyanga District, Zimbabwe
*Nyanga National Park in Zimbabwe
* Nyanga, Western Cape, a township in S ...
Mashonaland Central Province
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Bindura
Bindura is a town in the province of Mashonaland Central province, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe Valley about 88 km north-east of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 18,243. This rose to 21,1 ...
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Guruve
Guruve is a village and centre of Guruve District, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the ...
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Mazowe
Mazowe is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe.
Notable people
*John Bredenkamp
*Fortune Chasi
*Chenhanho Chimutengwende
*Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo
*Auxilia Mnangagwa
*Grace Mugabe
*Joseph Msika
Joseph Wilfred Msika (6 Decembe ...
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Mbire
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Mount Darwin
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Muzarabani
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Mukumbura
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Rushinga
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Shamva
Shamva is a town in the province of Mashonaland Central in the Shamva District of Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe valley about 90 km north-east of Harare. The area was called Abercorn by Rhodesian colonizers. The present name is deriv ...
Mashonaland East Province
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Chikomba
Chikomba is a district of Zimbabwe. It was previously part of Midlands Province, but was delimited to fall under Mashonaland East Province in the 1990s.
Notable people
* Chenjerai Hunzvi, politician and war veterans leader
*Solomon Mujuru, ar ...
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Goromonzi
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Marondera
Marondera (known as Marandellas until 1982) is a city in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare.
History
It was first known as Marandella's Kraal, corrupted from Marondera, chief of the ruling VaRozvi people who ...
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Mudzi
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Murehwa
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Mutoko
Mutoko is a small town in Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. It was established as an administrative station in 1911. It lies 143 km from Harare. It is named after the local chief, Mutoko.
The town is the capital of the Mutoko District, ...
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Seke
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UMP (Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe)
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Wedza (Hwedza)
Mashonaland West Province
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Chegutu
Chegutu (formerly Hartley) is a town in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe.
Location
The town is located in Chegutu District, Mashonaland West, in central northern Zimbabwe. It lies in the Hartley Hills , southwest of the capital Harare at ...
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Hurungwe
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Kariba
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Makonde
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Mhondoro-Ngezi
Mhondoro-Ngezi District is a district of the Province Mashonaland West in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered ...
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Sanyati
Sanyati is a town in Zimbabwe.
Location
The town is located in Kadoma District, in Mashonaland West Province, in northern central Zimbabwe. This location is about , by road, northwest of the city of Kadoma, where the district headquarters a ...
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Zvimba
Zvimba District is a district of Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe.
Location
The district is located in Mashonaland West Province, in central northern Zimbabwe. Zvimba District is bordered by Guruve District to the north, Mazowe District to th ...
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Kadoma
* Chinhoyi
Masvingo Province
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Bikita
Bikita is a district in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It borders with Gutu District, Zaka District, Chipinge District, Chiredzi District, Buhera District and Mwenezi District. It is located about east of Masvingo. Its administration is a ...
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Chiredzi
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Chivi
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Gutu
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Masvingo
Masvingo is a city in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The city is situated close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name and close to Lake Mutirikwi, its recreational park, th ...
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Mwenezi
Mwenezi is a small district situated in southern Zimbabwe. It is bisected by the Mwenezi River and the A4 highway, the main thoroughfare that connects the town of Beitbridge, on the border with South Africa, to Masvingo.
Background
Mwenezi der ...
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Zaka
ZAKA ( he, זק"א, abbreviation for ''Zihuy Korbanot Ason'', , literally: "Disaster Victim Identification") is a series of voluntary community emergency response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central Distr ...
Matabeleland North Province
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Binga Binga may refer to:
*Binga District, Zimbabwe
*Binga village, Zimbabwe
*Binga, Mali
*Binga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Binga people, an ethnic group in Sudan
*Jesse Binga, American businessman
*Monte Binga, highest mountain in Mozambique
*B ...
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Bubi
BuBi (officially: MOL BuBi) is a bicycle sharing network in Budapest, Hungary. Its name is a playful contraction Budapest and Bicikli (bicycle in Hungarian), meaning "bubble" in an endearing manner. As of May 2019 the network consists of 143 dock ...
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Hwange
Hwange (formerly Wankie) is a town in Zimbabwe, located in Hwange District, in Matabeleland North Province, in northwestern Zimbabwe, close to the international borders with Botswana and Zambia. It lies approximately , by road, southeast of ...
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Lupane
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Nkayi
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Tsholotsho
Tsholotsho is a district in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. Its administrative centre is at Tsholotsho business centre which is located about 98 km north-west of Bulawayo. Districts around Tsholotsho include Lupane, Hwange, Umguz ...
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Umguza
Matabeleland South Province
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Beitbridge
Beitbridge is a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. The name also refers to the border post and bridge spanning the Limpopo River, which forms the political border between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The border on the S ...
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Bulilima
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Gwanda
Gwanda is a town in Zimbabwe. It is the capital of the province of Matabeleland South, one of the ten administrative provinces in the country. It is also the district capital of Gwanda District, one of the seven administrative districts in ...
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Insiza
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Mangwe
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Matobo
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Umzingwane
Umzingwane is a village and seat of the Umzingwane District, in Matabeleland South province, in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Lim ...
Midlands Province
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Chirumhanzu
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Gokwe North
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Gokwe South
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Gweru
Gweru is a city in central Zimbabwe. Near the geographical centre of the country. It is on the centre of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the Northern Ndebele people, Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River's high ...
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Kwekwe
Kwekwe ( ), known until 1983 as Que Que, is a city in the Midlands province of central Zimbabwe. The city has a population of 119,863 within the city limits, as of the 2022 census, making it the 7th-largest city in Zimbabwe and the second-most p ...
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Mberengwa
Mberengwa is a district in Midlands province in Zimbabwe. The district is now divided into sub-districts: Mberengwa North, East, West and South. It is bounded by Gwanda in Mberengwa west, and by Zvishavane in its northern zone, to the south it st ...
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Shurugwi
Shurugwi, formerly Selukwe, is a small town and administrative centre in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe, located about 350 km (220 miles) south of Harare, with a population of 22,900 according to the 2022 census. The town was establ ...
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Zvishavane
Zvishavane (known until 1982 as Shabani) is a mining town in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. Surrounded by low hills, it lies west of Masvingo, on the main Bulawayo-Masvingo road. Other roads lead from Zvishavane to Gweru, north, and Mberengwa, ...
See also
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Provinces of Zimbabwe
Provinces are constituent Polity, political entities of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe currently has ten provinces, two of which are City, cities with provincial status. Zimbabwe is a unitary state, and its provinces exercise only the powers that the centra ...
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Wards of Zimbabwe
The Districts of Zimbabwe are divided into 1,200 municipal wards. The wards are listed below, by district: Kenilworth is under Bubi district There is a high school Mangubeni high Where Pretty Ndlovu the last daughter of war veteran Mack Mackie ...
External links
Map of Districts of Zimbabwe
{{Africa administrative divisions second level
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
Subdivisions of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe geography-related lists