Shinga, Zimbabwe

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Shinga (Shanga) is a village in the Ngarwe communal lands of Mudzi District, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe. [1] The population is about 100 and consists mainly of subsistence farmers. The community has a school [2] and a clinic. [1] [3] It gives its name to a ward of the Mudzi West constituency. [4]

Mudzi District is a district of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. It is located in the far eastern part of Zimbabwe, and covers 4,075 square kilometres (1,573 sq mi), all of which is communal land. As of the 2012 census, the district had a population of 133,252, this is down from the 135,378 of the 2002 census and reflects emigration due to the poverty of the district. It has a single main road, A2, that runs from the town of Mutoko in Mutoko District in the southwest through the district, past the villages of Chifamba, Mudzi, Chingwena, Masarakufa, Nyamuwanga, the town of Kotwa, and the village of Muzezuru to the town of Nyamapanda before entering Mozambique to the northeast.

Mashonaland East Province Province in Zimbabwe

Mashonaland East, informally Mash East, is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32,230 km² and a population of approximately 1.35 million (2012). Marondera is the capital of the province.

Zimbabwe Republic in southern Africa

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare and the second largest being Bulawayo. A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Zimbabwe. Mutoko. Sheet SE-36-06 (Map) (1991 ed.). 1:250,0000. Surveyor General, Zimbabwe. Archived from the original on 18 March 2007.
  2. ↑ Shinga School (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ↑ "Mudzi District Map" (PDF). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Profiles of constituencies and maps: Mashonaland East: Mudzi West" (PDF). Zimbabwe Election Support Network. 26 March 2008. p. 70. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2012.

Coordinates: 17°00′05″S032°25′27″E / 17.00139°S 32.42417°E / -17.00139; 32.42417

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