Midlands Province

Midlands Midlands Province
Basic data
Country	Zimbabwe
Capital	Gweru
surface	49,166 km²
Residents	1,614,941 (2012)
density	33 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	ZW-MI

Coordinates: 19 ° 0 ′  S , 30 ° 0 ′  E

Midlands is one of three provinces in Zimbabwe that do not have a share of the state's external border (along with Bulawayo Province and Harare Province ).

Its area covers 49,166 km² and a population of around 1.6 million (2012). The capital of the province is Gweru , the third largest city in the country. As the central province of Zimbabwe, the population here is made up of numerous ethnic groups: Shona , Ndebele , Tswana , Suthu and Chewa .

The most productive part of the ore-rich Great Dyke runs through the Midlands . Kwekwe is probably the city with the richest mining, manufacturing and chemical industries. The gold production here is the highest in the country. Away from the Great Dyke, agriculture predominates, with cotton cultivation dominating in the two rural Gokwe districts.

The districts of the Midlands Province are:

• Gokwe North
• Gokwe South
• Gokwe Town
• Gweru
• Gweru Rural
• Kwekwe
• Kwekwe Rural
• Mberengwa
• Redcliff
• Shurugwi
• Shurugwi Rural
• Zvishavane
• Zvishavane Mine

Geographical location

Matabeleland North Province	Mashonaland West Province	Mashonaland East Province
Matabeleland North Province		Manicaland
Matabeleland South Province	Masvingo Province	Masvingo Province

Regional partnerships

• Otjozondjupa region, since February 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ZimStat : Zimbabwe Population Census 2012. (pdf) October 2013, accessed on September 7, 2019 (English). 
2. ↑ Population of Midlands. zimstat.co.zw (English; PDF), accessed on September 9, 2019
3. ↑ Otjozondjupa Region twins with Mild Province. Informanté, February 27, 2020.