Machinga District

Machinga is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Machinga. The district covers an area of 3,771 km.² and has a population of 369,614.

Demographics

At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Machinga District by ethnic group was as follows:

57.8% Yao
27.5% Lomwe
6.4% Chewa
5.4% Nyanja
0.9% Ngoni
0.7% Mang'anja
0.7% Sena
0.3% Tumbuka
0.0% Nkhonde
0.0% Lambya
0.0% Sukwa
0.1% Others
Government and administrative divisions

There are seven National Assembly constituencies in Machinga:

Machinga - Central
Machinga - Central East
Machinga - East
Machinga - Likwenu
Machinga - North East
Machinga - South
Machinga - South East represented by Fyness Magonjwa in 2019.

Since the 2009 general election most of these constituencies have been represented by politicians from the United Democratic Front.