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Mutare

City in Zimbabwe

Also known as Umtali

Country: Zimbabwe
Located in: Manicaland Province
Population: 224,804(2022)
Elevation: 1,120 m
, 1,116 m
Founded: 1897
Website: cityofmutare.com

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Mutare, known as Umtali until 1982, is the capital and largest city in the province of Manicaland. It is the third-largest city in Zimbabwe. Having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 in the surrounding districts, Mutare adds to the wider metropolitan area a total population of over 500,000 people. Mutare is also the capital of Manicaland Province and the largest city in eastern Zimbabwe.

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Twinned administrative body: Haarlem
Capital of: Manicaland Province

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26 identifiers linking Mutare across the web's reference databases

-18.9728, 32.6694OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDB. (2026). Mutare (Q399322). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/mutare-Q399322