Gweru District
Coordinates: 19°27′42″S 29°49′14″E / 19.461632°S 29.820595°E
Gweru District is a district in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe.
Gweru District gets its name from Ikwelo River now Gweru River which has the city as its source and primary drainage basin.
The name Gweru is a further corruption of the name Gwelo which was a distortion of the original name Ikwelo given by the earliest isiNdebele speakers in the late 19th century. Ikwelo was the district because it was not a spot name but rather a name given to a place along the length of the river in question as written by Colonel Carbutt, of Southern Rhodesia as published by the then Chief Information Officer, Information Services Branch. (Division of Native Affairs, Salisbury September, 1960) in the article Lore and Legend: Southern Rhodesia Place Names.
Gweru District has a population of over 231,675.
It has Shurugwi District to the south-esst, Chirumhanzu District to the east, Insiza District south-west, Bubi District to the west, Nkayi District north-west and Kwekwe District north.
Source:World Meteorological Organization
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