Binga District
Coordinates: 17°46′20″S 27°33′30″E / 17.77222°S 27.55833°E Binga District (Vinga District) is a district of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. It is located in Matabeleland North just south of Kariba Lake, across the lake from Zambia It lies along the hot and arid southern Zambezi Escarpment, a region that is in the territory of the tsetse fly, which transmits human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis.
Binga District is an area of land bounded by a line drawn from;
There are twenty-one wards in the district, which is divided into two parliamentary constituencies: Binga North Constituency with twelve wards and South Binga Constituency with nine wards. The separate constituencies were created in 2008.
Among the areas in Binga North Constituency are: Chizarira, Siabuwa, Cheete, Siansundu, Siantula, Mujere and Manjolo.
Binga village is by far one of the largest settlement. It lies on the south eastern shore of Lake Kariba. It was constructed to rehouse the BaTonga people whose homeland was flooded by the creation of the Kariba reservoir. The Chibwatatata Hot Springs lie near the town. There are also settlements at:
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