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Machinga is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

in the Southern Region of

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northe ...

. The capital is Machinga. The district covers an area of 3,771 km.² and has a population of 369,614.

Demographics

At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Machinga District by ethnic group was as follows: * 57.8% Yao * 27.5% Lomwe * 6.4% Chewa * 5.4%

Nyanja Chewa (also known as Nyanja, ) is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa, namely the countries of Malawi , where it is an official language, and Mozambique and Zambia. The noun class prefix ''chi-'' is used for ...

* 0.9% Ngoni * 0.7%

Mang'anja The Mang'anja are a Bantu people of central and southern Africa, particularly around Chikwawa in the Shire River valley of southern Malawi. They speak a dialect of the Nyanja language, and are a branch of the Amaravi people. As of 1996 their pop ...

* 0.7%

Sena Sena may refer to: Places * Sanandaj or Sena, city in northwestern Iran * Sena (state constituency), represented in the Perlis State Legislative Assembly * Sena, Dashtestan, village in Bushehr Province, Iran * Sena, Huesca, municipality in Huesc ...

* 0.3% Tumbuka * 0.0% Nkhonde * 0.0% Lambya * 0.0% Sukwa * 0.1% Others

Government and administrative divisions

There are seven

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...

constituencies in Machinga: * Machinga - Central * Machinga - Central East * Machinga - East * Machinga - Likwenu * Machinga - North East * Machinga - South * Machinga - South East Since the 2009 general election most of these constituencies (except Machinga Central and Machinga Likwenu, which have been held by members of the Democratic Progressive Party) have been represented by politicians from the United Democratic Front.

References

Districts of Malawi Districts in Southern Region, Malawi {{Malawi-geo-stub