Gweru Gweru Gweru (named Gwelo until 1982) is a city in central Zimbabwe. Located near the geographical centre of the country, it is the capital of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the indigenous Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River's high banks, in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson. In 1914 it attained municipal status, and in 1971 it became a city. The city has a population of 141,862 as of 2013. Gweru is known for vibrant farming activities in beef cattle, crop farming, and commercial gardening of
Towns in Karachi Towns in Karachi Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan was a federation of eighteen autonomous towns from 2001 and dissolved in 2011 as the latest stage of a developing system of local government. The eighteen towns are varied in population and population density with three towns including extensive rural areas which lie within the city-district boundaries because the urban area of Karachi occupies 1,800 km² out of the city-district's 3,528 km². The history of the administration of Karachi begins in 1846, when a cholera epidemic threatened the 9,000 citizens of the city. The efforts to combat this infectious disease were coordinated by