Mashonaland Central Province

Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe, divided into eight districts, with an area of 28,347 square kilometres and 1,384,891 people at the 2012 census, about 9.1 percent of the national population. It spans the northern mainland of the country, reaching into the Zambezi valley and the Mozambican border in the northeast, and is dominated by Shona speakers. Its capital, Bindura, lies about 90 kilometres from Harare, and the province includes towns such as Mount Darwin, Mazowe, Glendale, Guruve, Muzarabani, Centenary and Shamva. It suffered heavy flooding in the 2002 and 2003 rainy season.