Plumtree, Zimbabwe

Plumtree is a town in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe, at the border with Botswana about 100 kilometres southwest of Bulawayo, on the road and railway to Francistown. It stands at about 1,374 metres on the watershed between the Limpopo and Zambezi basins, with annual rainfall near 500 millimetres, and is the local administrative centre for Mangwe District. The town is named for the marula and wild plum trees of the area; the Kalanga once called it Getjenge and also Titji, meaning station, after the railway station operating there around 1897. The 2012 census counted 11,626 people and the 2022 census 14,460.