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v. t. e. Provinces are constituent political entities of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe currently has ten provinces, two of which are cities with provincial status. Zimbabwe is a unitary state, and its provinces exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. Provinces are divided into districts, which are divided into wards.
Zimbabwe has a centralised government and is divided into eight provinces and two cities with provincial status, for administrative purposes. Each province has a provincial capital from where official business is usually carried out. [1] The names of most of the provinces were generated from the Mashonaland and Matabeleland divide at the time ...
Harare Province, which includes the city of Harare, is the most populous of Zimbabwe's ten provinces, with over two million inhabitants in 2012. Manicaland Province and Midlands Province are the second and third most populous provinces, respectively. Seven of the ten provinces have a population larger than one million.
The name "Zimbabwe" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city in the country's south-east.Two different theories address the origin of the word. Many sources hold that "Zimbabwe" derives from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as "houses of stones" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of ibwe, "stone").
Many municipalities are administratively divided into boroughs, wards, districts, neighborhoods, or villages, which may or may not have an active government. The US Census defines minor civil divisionsand census county divisionsfor top-level county divisions, many only for statistical purposes. 326 Indian reservations.
Extreme points of Zimbabwe. High: Mount Nyangani 2,592 m (8,504 ft) Low: Confluence of Runde River and Save River 162 m (531 ft) Land boundaries: 3,066 km. Mozambique 1,231 km. Botswana 813 km. Zambia 797 km.
Manicaland Province (7 C, 15 P) Mashonaland Central Province (6 C, 6 P) Mashonaland East Province (7 C, 9 P) Mashonaland West Province (6 C, 5 P) Masvingo Province (6 C, 8 P) Matabeleland North Province (6 C, 6 P) Matabeleland South Province (7 C, 7 P) Midlands Province (7 C, 5 P)
t. e. The Republic of Zimbabwe is broken down into 10 administrative provinces, which are divided into 64 districts and 1,970 wards. Districts of Zimbabwe.