Makoni District is a
district
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in
Manicaland Province
Manicaland is a Provinces of Zimbabwe, province in eastern Zimbabwe. After Harare Province, it is the country's second-most populous province, with a population of 2.037 million, as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census. Making it the third mo ...
of northeastern
Zimbabwe
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.
The district's main town,
Rusape
Rusape is a town in eastern Zimbabwe.
Location
It is located in Makoni District in Manicaland Province, in northeastern Zimbabwe. It lies approximately , by road, southeast of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Rusape is situated on the main roa ...
, with an estimated population of 37,906 in 2022, is located approximately , by road, southeast of
Harare
Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...
, the
capital
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Econom ...
and largest city of Zimbabwe .
Economy
Makoni District is primarily a farming district. The chief cash crop is
tobacco
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.
Population
In 2002, the national census estimated the population of Makoni District at 151,596 people. In 2004, the district population was estimated at 272,578. In 2022, the population of the district was 288,441.
See also
*
Districts of Zimbabwe
The Republic of Zimbabwe is broken down into 10 administrative provinces of Zimbabwe, provinces, which are divided into 64 districts and 1,970 Wards of Zimbabwe, wards.
Bulawayo Province
* Bulawayo
Harare Province
* Harare ...
*
Provinces of Zimbabwe
Provinces are constituent Polity, political entities of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe currently has ten provinces, two of which are City, cities with provincial status. Zimbabwe is a unitary state, and its provinces exercise only the powers that the centr ...
References
External links
Districts of Manicaland Province
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