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Gwanda District

second-level administrative subdivision in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5623288 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gwanda District is located in Matabeleland South province of Zimbabwe. Its administrative seat is Gwanda, the biggest city of the province.

The city of Gwanda has a municipal council, with 10 wards, while the remainder of the district falls under the Gwanda Rural District Council, which has 24 wards.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gwanda District” as second-level administrative subdivision in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 49-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gwanda, District and second-level can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as second-level administrative subdivision in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5623288. Authority coordinates are -21.500, 29.500. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gwanda District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.