Zimbabwe Districts

The district is the second tier of Zimbabwe, between the ten provinces and the wards, and the unit most local news and road signs are written in. The quiz counts the 59 that the country counts, with Harare and Bulawayo each standing as the one district of their city province.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: Province: the ten of the country
In the game: 59 districts

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What you are looking at

The districts of Zimbabwe. Each rural province has between six and nine, and Harare and Bulawayo have one each. Several are named for their main town, so Mutare, Masvingo, Gweru and Kwekwe are both a town and the district round it.

The sizes are very uneven. Hwange, in the far west, is the largest district by a long way and holds the national park of the same name and Victoria Falls. Round Harare and in Manicaland the districts are small and close together, and the two cities are only a few kilometres across.

Lake Kariba is not a district in the boundary file and is left as a gap on the Zambia border. The district of Kariba is the town and the land on the shore.

The groups are the provinces, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each province answers under the same name in Zimbabwe Provinces.

How to place one

Pick one province and learn it. Matabeleland South and Mashonaland West have six each and are the quickest to finish; Mashonaland East has nine.
Start with the towns. Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru, Masvingo and Kwekwe are anchors for the districts that surround them.
Follow the border. Beitbridge on the Limpopo, Chipinge and Chimanimani on the Mozambique side, and Binga and Kariba on the Zambezi each place themselves by the river or range they sit on.
Leave the middle for last. The Midlands and Masvingo hold many districts of similar size and few landmarks.

Every district, by province

Mashonaland West6 districts: Chegutu, Hurungwe, Kadoma, Kariba, Makonde, Zvimba
Matabeleland North7 districts: Binga, Bubi, Hwange, Lupane, Nkayi, Tsholotsho, Umguza
Mashonaland Central7 districts: Bindura, Centenary, Guruve, Mazowe, Mount Darwin, Rushinga, Shamva
Midlands8 districts: Chirumhanzu, Gokwe North, Gokwe South, Gweru, Kwekwe, Mberengwa, Shurugwi, Zvishavane
Mashonaland East9 districts: Chikomba, Goromonzi, Hwedza, Marondera, Mudzi, Murehwa, Mutoko, Seke, Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe
Matabeleland South6 districts: Beitbridge, Bulilimangwe, Gwanda, Insiza, Matobo, Umzingwane
Manicaland7 districts: Buhera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Makoni, Mutare, Mutasa, Nyanga
Masvingo7 districts: Bikita, Chiredzi, Chivi, Gutu, Masvingo, Mwenezi, Zaka
Harare1 district: Harare
Bulawayo1 district: Bulawayo

Worked examples

Hwange

The biggest

Hwange is the largest district, in the north west of Matabeleland North, and includes Victoria Falls and Hwange National Park.

Beitbridge

The one on the Limpopo

Beitbridge is the southern tip of the country, on the Limpopo, where the main road crosses to South Africa.

Harare

The capital

Harare is a district and a province at once. It is small enough on the map to need a tap area, and it sits in the middle of the Mashonaland East districts.