Districts of Swaziland

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Updates: 

I've acquired 1997 census data for Swaziland. Karem Abdalla informed me about the provisional results of the 1997 Population and Housing census of Swaziland , adding, "it is really difficult to get a link to this web-site." It may be off-line a lot of the time.

Country overview: 

Short nameSWAZILAND
ISO codeSZ
FIPS codeWZ
LanguageEnglish (en), siSwati (ss)
Time zone+2
CapitalMbabane, Lobamba

 

Swaziland was a British protectorate from 1903 until 1968-09-06, when it became independent.

Other names of country: 

  1. Danish: Swaziland
  2. Dutch: Swaziland, Koninkrijk Swaziland (formal)
  3. English: Kingdom of Swaziland (formal), Ngwane (variant)
  4. Finnish: Swazimaa
  5. French: Swaziland m
  6. German: Swasiland n
  7. Icelandic: Svasíland
  8. Italian: Swaziland m
  9. Norwegian: Swaziland, Kongeriket Swaziland (formal)
  10. Portuguese: Suazilândia, Reino m da Suazilândia f (formal)
  11. siSwati: Umbuso weSwatini (formal)
  12. Spanish: Suazilandia, Swazilandia, Reino m de Swazilandia (formal)
  13. Swedish: Swaziland

Origin of name: 

after King Mswati I (mid-19th century)

Primary subdivisions: 

Swaziland is divided into four districts.

DistrictHASCFIPSCodePhonePop-1997Pop-1986Area(km.²)Area(mi.²)Capital
HhohhoSZ.HHWZ01H4262,203178,9363,5691,378Mbabane
LubomboSZ.LUWZ02L3198,109153,9585,9452,295Siteki
ManziniSZ.MAWZ03M5287,949192,5964,0701,571Manzini
ShiselweniSZ.SHWZ04S2217,598155,5693,7791,459Hlatikulu
4 districts965,859681,05917,3636,703
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. If periods are replaced by
    hyphens, these are the same as the district codes from the standard ISO 3166-2.
  • FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4.
  • Code: Swaziland uses postal codes consisting of a one-letter district code, as above,
    followed by three digits. According to Where's That Vehicle Come From? , these codes
    are also used as the rightmost character on a license plate to indicate the district of
    registration.
  • Phone: First digit of telephone access code for places in the district.
  • Pop-1997: 1997 census (provisional results; include persons outside Swaziland).
  • Pop-1986: 1986 census

 

Note: ISO 3166-2 also lists a district called Praslin, with a code of PR. I haven't been able to find any other mention of Praslin as a geographical name in Swaziland. I think what happened is that Praslin slipped into some versions of FIPS PUB 10-4 by mistake (code WZ05); ISO copied it from FIPS; and then the mistake was corrected in FIPS.

Change history: 

At independence, Swaziland was reorganized from six districts (Bremersdorp, Hlatikulu, Mankaiana, Mbabane, Pigg's Peak, and Stegi) into the present four.

Other names of subdivisions: 

Shiselweni: Shiselwini (variant)

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