Shamva District
Shamva is one of seven districts in the Mashonaland Central province of Zimbabwe. The district capital is the village of Shamva. One of the noted gold mines in Zimbabwe is the Shamva Mine, located 70 km northeast of Harare, which had produced 52 tonnes of gold by 1982.- Type: district of Zimbabwe with 166,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Shamva” and “Tsambvi”
Shamva District
Latitude
-17.1237° or 17° 7′ 25″ south
Longitude
31.6415° or 31° 38′ 29″ east
Population
166,000
Elevation
925 metres (3,035 feet)
Open location code
5GJHVJGR+GH
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Shamva District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shamva District”
- Dutch: “Shamva District”
- Italian: “Distretto di Shamva”
- Japanese: “シャンヴァ地区”
- Lithuanian: “Šamvos rajonas”
- Russian: “Шамва”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Shamva”
- Zulu: “Shamva District”
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