Bulawayo

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Ceety
View o Bulawayo's Central Business Destrict frae Pioneer Hoose bi Prince Phumulani Nyoni
Banner Coat o airms
Nickname(s): 'Ceety o Keengs', 'Skies', 'Bluez' or 'Bulliesberg'
Motto: Si Ye Phambili
Location in the Bulawayo Province
Bulawayo Location in the Bulawayo Province
Coordinates: 20°10′12″S 28°34′48″E
Kintra	Zimbabwe
Province	Bulawayo
Destrict	Ceety o Bulawayo
Settled	1840
Incorporatit (toun)	1897
Incorporatit (ceety)	1943
Diveesions	4 Destricts,29 Wards,156 Suburbs
Govrenment
• Teep	Provincial Municipality
• Mayor	Martin Moyo
Area
• Ceety	1,706.8 km2 (659.0 sq mi)
• Watter	129.3 km2 (49.9 sq mi)
• Urban	650.5 km2 (251.2 sq mi)
• Metro	899.459 km2 (347.283 sq mi)
Elevation	1,358 m (4,455 ft)
Population (2012 census)
• Ceety	653,337
• Density	380/km2 (990/sq mi)
• Urban	655,675
• Urban density	2,305/km2 (5,970/sq mi)
Time zone	SAST (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	nae observed (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	9
Twin cities
• Durban	Sooth Africae
• Aiberdeen	Scotland
• Katima Mulilo	Namibie
• Polokwane	Sooth Africae
Climate	Cwa
Website	citybyo.co.zw bulawayopublicity.com

Bulawayo is the seicont lairgest ceety in Zimbabwe, efter the caipital Harare, wi a population in 2009 o 1,500,000. It is locatit in Matabeleland, 439 km sooth-wast o Harare, an is nou treatit as a separate provincial aurie frae Matabeleland. The caipital o Matabeleland North is nou Lupane, as Bulawayo is a stand-alane province.

General information

Bulawayo Ceety Hall

Bulawayo is an aa kent as the 'Ceety o Keengs', 'Skies', 'Bluez', 'Bulliesberg' or 'KoNtuthu ziyathunqa' – a SiNdebele wird for 'a place of smoky fires'. It is a multicultural ceety wi maist residents able tae speak at least three leids (includin Inglis, Ndebele, Kalanga, Sotho, Nambya, Tonga an Venda). The majority o the population o Bulawayo belang tae the Ndebele ethnic an leid group, who descend frae a 19t century Zulu migration an are a minority in Zimbabwe.

Bulawayo haes lang been and is still regardit as the seicont business caipital o Zimbabwe efter Harare an is hame tae the Naitional Railways o Zimbabwe acause o its strategic position near Botswana an Sooth Africae. It is the nearest lairge ceety tae Hwange National Park, Matopo National Park an Victoria Falls.

Etymology

The name Bulawayo comes frae the Sindebele wird KoBulawayo meanin 'a place whaur they are killed.' It is thought that at the time o the formation o the ceety, there wis a ceevil war an a group o Ndebeles no aligned tae Prince Lobengula wur fechtin him as they felt he wis no the heir tae the throne, hence he gave his caipital the name 'whaur he (the prince) is being killed'. Some historians differ on this matter, describin Bulawayo as 'at the place o He who Kills' or 'place o slaughter'.

The name Bulawayo is imported frae Nguniland which is a place ance occupied bi the Khumalo fowk. The place still exists an it is next tae Richards Bay.