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Salima District

district of Malawi
AdministrativeArea district_of_malawi Q195353

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of Malawi

Location

Country
Malawi[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -13.750°, 34.500°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Central Region[2]
Shares border with
Dedza District, Lilongwe District, Dowa District, Ntchisi District, Nkhotakota District[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+2196[11]
More facts +2
Capital
Salima[4]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Malawi/Salima
🏷️ Also known as
en Salima District ar مقاطعة ساليما de Salima (Distrikt) de Salima Distrikt de Salima, Distrikt de Distrikt Salima el Σαλίμα es Distrito de Salima fa بخش سالیما fi Saliman piirikunta fr Salima hi सलीमा जिला id Distrik Salima it distretto di Salima ja サリマ県 ko 살리마현 ms Daerah Salima pl Dystrykt Salima pl Salima ro Districtul Salima
🔖 Identifiers · 10
GND ID
4051367-1
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
MI22
Freebase ID
/m/07_yg1
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1486810
GeoNames ID
924053
INaturalist place ID
11391
ISO 3166-2 code
MW-SA
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7345525
Who's on First ID
890455825
Yale LUX ID
place/96f65a68-7c9e-4e2a-8baf-1f038498f9e0
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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PopulationP1082
478,346 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · MW GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Blantyre 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · MW GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Dowa District, Nkhotakota District, Ntchisi District, Dedza District, Lilongwe District
← Shares border with 5
Dowa District, Nkhotakota District, Ntchisi District, Dedza District, Lilongwe District
Contained subdivisions 3
Salima, Chipoka, Kapeta
Capital 1
Salima
Country 1
Malawi
Instance of 1
district of Malawi
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Central Region
← Capital of 1
Salima
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Central Region
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Summary

Salima District is a district of Malawi[1].

Related Entities

Chipoka Malawi

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Central Region
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'bg', 'br', 'ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'ff', 'fi', 'fr', '
    GND ID → 4051367-1
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+2196'}
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
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