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  1. Industrial city and railway junction in
  2. Zimbabwe; population (1982) 415,000. It lies
  3. at an altitude of 1,355 m/4,450 ft on the
  4. river Matsheumlope, a tributary of the
  5. Zambezi, and was founded on the site of the
  6. kraal (enclosed village), burned down 1893,
  7. of the Matabele chief, Lobenguela. It
  8. produces agricultural and electrical
  9. equipment. The former capital of
  10. Matabeleland, Bulawayo developed with the
  11. exploitation of goldmines in the
  12. neighbourhood.
  13.