Editing Mutare (section)

==Cityscape==
[[File:Mutare Area, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|Greater Mutare as viewed from Christmas Pass]]
[[File:Mutare East.jpg|thumb|Mutare East]]
[[File:Mutare catholic church.jpg|thumb|Mutare Catholic Church]]

Mutare, like most cities in Zimbabwe, classifies residential suburbs according to population density: Low density, Medium density and High density. In the past, as was done across [[Southern Africa]] during the colonial period, people were segregated to suburbs according to their racial ethnicity. Whites inhabited the Eastern upmarket suburbs the low-density suburbs, with [[Coloured people]] (mixed race) living in suburbs like Florida and black Africans being segregated to the townships of [[Sakubva]] and Dangamvura.

The most upscale suburbs (low-density suburbs) such as Murambi, Fairbridge Park, Morningside, Tiger's Kloof and the Avenues are located on the north and east ends of the city. The suburb of Avenues is found just east of the city centre on the way to Tiger's Kloof and Murambi, bordering Morningside.

East of the CBD is the suburbs of Palmerstone, Darlington, Greenside and Bordervale, which are all near the border with Mozambique.

In the west are the medium-density (i.e. middle class) suburbs, the largest and most famous being Yeovil - (the majority of street names in Yeovil are named after English counties e.g. [[Sussex]] Gardens, [[Hampshire]], [[Devonshire]], [[Somerset]]). Then more recently developed after Yeovil is Westlea (the majority all streets in Westlea are named after [[Australasia]]n cities, (e.g. [[Canberra]], [[Auckland]], [[Sydney]], [[Perth]] and [[Christchurch]]) and Florida (the streets in Florida have English Kings' names, e.g. [[Henry (given name)|Henry]], [[Alfred (name)|Alfred]], [[Richard]], [[George (given name)|George]]), as well as the high-density suburb of Chikanga, which was constructed in phases, beginning in the late eighties.

Further west of Chikanga lies Garikai, Bernwin and Hobhouse. South of the railway tracks, is the working class suburb of Sakubva, which contains nearly half of the city's population despite an area of less than four square miles. Sakubva is considered to be the poorest of Mutare's suburbs, and its economy is centred around a large outdoor food and flea market and the "Musika weHuku" (The Chicken Market). The market has been recently razed in the recent exercise to clean up the city and in light of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and moved elsewhere.

South of the city, hidden from view from the rest of the city by a series of hills, is the high-density suburb of Dangamvura. The affluent areas of Weirmouth (Plots) and Fern Valley are also on the southern outskirts of the city; in these areas, residential lots exceed an acre, and market gardening is an economic activity. Nearby Fern Valley, is home to the new state [[university]], the Manicaland College of Applied Sciences.

To the south east, in the mountains from the Prince of Wales viewpoint (with views of Mozambique below), lies the scenic [[Vumba]] Mountain range, an area of immense great natural beauty and temperate climate, and home to an indigenous [[afromontane]] forests, exotic trees, such as pine and oak and the upscale, Leopard Rock Hotel, as well as resort areas for [[horse riding]], [[kayaking]], [[mountain climbing]] mountain trails, a food processing plant and large plantations of pine and wattle forests.

Further south along the road to [[Masvingo]], beyond the city limits is the high-density town of Zimunya. Mutare's main industrial areas lie south of the railway and west of [[Sakubva]], although there is some light industry just east of the southern part of the city centre at "Greenmarket" and surrounding areas.

These are some of the major suburbs of Mutare.

{| class="wikitable"
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! ''' Region'''
! ''' Suburbs'''
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| Northern (North of the railway line)
| Murambi;Fairbridge Park; Morningside; Tiger's Kloof; Palmerston; Avenues; Utopia; Darlington; Greenside; Greenside Extension, Yeovil; Westlea; Florida; Toronto; Bordervale.Chikanga

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| Southern (South of the railway line)
| [[Sakubva]]; Dangamvura; St Josephs Park-Chikanga Extension, Weirmouth; Fern Valley; Zimunya; Hobhouse(1,2,3)extension; Natview Park, Garikai.
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|-
|}