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Matabeleland South

First-level unit, Zimbabwe: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-ZWE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ZWE / ZWStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
865,365
people (GHSL 2025)
54,273 km²
area
5%
of Zimbabwe
10
units inside

01Map

Inside Matabeleland South

The 10 ADM2 units of Matabeleland South.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Matabeleland South
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

865,365

5% of Zimbabwe.

People · WorldPop 2025

811,395

-6% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

54,273 km²

16 people per km².

కోడ్

ZW16

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Matabeleland South in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2023-12-31

876,887

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2019-12-31

27.7%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

111%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

10 units inside Matabeleland South

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Beitbridge – 104,480 105,296 12,750.41 8 12.1% 0
Beitbridge Urban – 36,058 50,005 89.64 402 4.2% 0
Bulilima – 117,199 86,265 6,456.31 18 13.5% 0
Gwanda – 153,374 137,980 10,741.57 14 17.7% 0
Gwanda Urban – 24,127 30,245 22.66 1,065 2.8% 0
Insiza – 127,351 138,851 8,246.46 15 14.7% 0
Mangwe – 85,342 66,834 5,737.98 15 9.9% 0
Matobo – 123,541 102,254 7,265.47 17 14.3% 0
Plumtree – 13,953 16,369 174.86 80 1.6% 0
Umzingwane – 79,939 77,297 2,788.11 29 9.2% 0
05బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
307.3 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
767.9 H3 cells
Railways
513.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
266 H3 cells
06ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Matabeleland South publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Zimbabwe.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZWE ADM1, source: Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT www.zimstat.co.zw) Central Statistics Office, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZWE ADM2, source: Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT www.zimstat.co.zw) Central Statistics Office, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZWE ADM3, source: OCHA ROSEA, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
దేశాలు
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.