Districts of Swaziland
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Swaziland
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These districts are subdivided into 55 tinkhundla. These, in turn, are divided into umphakatsi
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Swaziland
Swaziland
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
is divided into four districts:
- Hhohho
- Lubombo
- ManziniManzini DistrictManzini is a district of Swaziland, located in the center-west of the country. It has an area of 5,068 km² and a population of 292,000 , and is divided into 16 tinkhundla. Its administrative center is Manzini. It borders all three other districts: Hhohho in the north, Lubombo in the east, and...
- Shiselweni
These districts are subdivided into 55 tinkhundla. These, in turn, are divided into umphakatsi
Umphakatsi
In Swaziland, an umphakatsi is an administrative subdivision smaller than an inkhundla; there are 360 imiphakatsi in the country, each approximately equivalent to a local community....
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See also
- ISO 3166-2:SZISO 3166-2:SZISO 3166-2:SZ is the entry for Swaziland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Swaziland, ISO 3166-2 codes are...