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Zomba District

district in Malawi
AdministrativeArea district_of_malawi Q1058442

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of Malawi

Location

Country
Malawi[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -15.167°, 35.500°[12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Southern Region[2]
Shares border with
Phalombe District, Mulanje District, Chiradzulu District, Blantyre District, Mwanza District (?–2003), Balaka District, Machinga District, Neno District (2003–present)[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
2580.0[13]
More facts +5
Located in
Southern Region
Capital
Zomba[4]
Coordinates
🗺️ -15.167°, 35.500°
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Malawi/Zomba[16]
Language used
Malawi Lomwe, Yao[14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zomba District es Distrito de Zomba fa بخش زومبا fi Zomban piirikunta fr Zomba id Distrik Zomba id Zomba it distretto di Zomba it Zomba District ja ゾンバ県 ko 좀바현 pl Dystrykt Zomba ro Districtul Zomba uk Зомба (дистрикт) zh 松巴縣 zh-hans 松巴县
🔖 Identifiers · 11
ISNI
000000040601346X
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
137347260
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
MI23
Freebase ID
/m/07_yhh
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1487599
GeoNames ID
923292
INaturalist place ID
11393
ISO 3166-2 code
MW-ZO
MusicBrainz area ID
86bfd18b-f7de-47c0-97bf-fe97e35311fc
Ringgold ID
299994
Yale LUX ID
place/d074a0b3-60f1-4aba-9ad1-5fa2df3cbde5
📚 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
850,000 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
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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 8
Balaka District, Phalombe District, Machinga District, Blantyre District, Mulanje District, Mwanza District, Chiradzulu District, Neno District
← Shares border with 8
Balaka District, Phalombe District, Machinga District, Blantyre District, Mulanje District, Mwanza District, Chiradzulu District, Neno District
Contained subdivisions 4
Zomba, Lake Chilwa, Chisi Island, Zomba Massif
Language used 2
Yao, Malawi Lomwe
← Indigenous to 2
Yao, Malawi Lomwe
Capital 1
Zomba
Country 1
Malawi
Instance of 1
district of Malawi
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Southern Region
← Capital of 1
Zomba
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Southern Region
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Summary

Zomba District is a district of Malawi[1].

Related Entities

Malawi Zomba

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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