Blantyre District (Blantyre District)
Blantyre is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Blantyre, a commercial city where most Malawian industrial and business offices are. The district covers an area of 2,012 km² and has a population of 809,397. It was named after Blantyre, the birth village of David Livingstone in Scotland, one of the first missionary explorers who came to Nyasaland, as Malawi was called before independence in 1964. It is also a main trading point besides the other large cities in Malawi. The other large cities are Lilongwe, which is located in the central region, and Mzuzu, which is in the northern part of Malawi.
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Blantyre District by ethnic group was as follows:
* 25.5% Ngoni
* 22.0% Lomwe
* 18.0% Yao
* 15.6% Mang'anja
* 12.8% Chewa
* 3.2% Sena
* 1.1% Tumbuka
* 0.6% Nyanja
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Blantyre District by ethnic group was as follows:
* 25.5% Ngoni
* 22.0% Lomwe
* 18.0% Yao
* 15.6% Mang'anja
* 12.8% Chewa
* 3.2% Sena
* 1.1% Tumbuka
* 0.6% Nyanja
Map - Blantyre District (Blantyre District)
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Country - Malawi
Flag of Malawi |
In 1891, the area was colonised by the British and became a protectorate of the United Kingdom known as Nyasaland. In 1953, it became a protectorate within the semi-independent Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The Federation was dissolved in 1963. In 1964, the protectorate was ended: Nyasaland became an independent country under Queen Elizabeth II, and was renamed Malawi. Two years later it became a republic. It gained full independence from the United Kingdom, and by 1970 had become a totalitarian one-party state under the presidency of Hastings Banda, who remained in this role until 1994. Malawi has a democratic, multi-party republic headed by an elected president. Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party led the Tonse Alliance grouping of nine political parties and won the court-mandated Presidential Election rerun held on 23 June 2020 after the May 2019 Presidential Election was annulled due to electoral irregularities. The country's military, the Malawian Defence Force, includes an army, a navy, and an air wing. Malawi's foreign policy is pro-Western. It maintains positive diplomatic relations with most countries, and participates in several international organisations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the African Union (AU).
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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MWK | Malawian kwacha | MK | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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NY | Chichewa language |