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The present-day capital (administrative center) of Shiselweni is Nhlangano, according to the preponderance of evidence. There is also considerable evidence that the capital of Shiselweni was Hlatikulu in the 1970s. I can't find anything definite about when the change occurred.

Some versions of FIPS PUB 10-4 listed a fifth district, Praslin (code WZ05). The 1996 draft version of ISO 3166-2 copied it from FIPS, assigning it the code SZ-PR. It was dropped from the 1998 official version of ISO, and from FIPS. I haven't been able to find any other mention of Praslin as a geographical name in Swaziland. There is a Praslin Island in the Seychelles. The FIPS entry was apparently a mistake.

Country overview: 

Short name	SWAZILAND
ISO code	SZ
FIPS code	WZ
Language	English (en), siSwati (ss)
Time zone	+2
Capital	Mbabane, Lobamba

 

Swaziland was a British protectorate from 1903 until 1968-09-06, when it became independent.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Swaziland
2. Dutch: Swaziland, Koninkrijk Swaziland (formal)
3. English: Kingdom of Swaziland (formal), Ngwane (variant)
4. Finnish: Swazimaa
5. French: Swaziland m
6. German: Swasiland n
7. Icelandic: Svasíland
8. Italian: Swaziland m
9. Norwegian: Swaziland, Kongeriket Swaziland (formal)
10. Portuguese: Suazilândia, Reino m da Suazilândia f (formal)
11. siSwati: Umbuso weSwatini (formal)
12. Russian: Королевство Свазиленд (formal)
13. Spanish: Suazilandia, Swazilandia, Reino m de Swazilandia (formal)
14. Swedish: Swaziland
15. Turkish: Svaziland Krallığı (formal)

Origin of name: 

after King Mswati I (mid-19th century)

Primary subdivisions: 

Swaziland is divided into four regions.

Region	HASC	FIPS	Code	Phone	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Hhohho	SZ.HH	WZ01	H1	4	282,734	3,569	1,378	Mbabane
Lubombo	SZ.LU	WZ02	L3	3	207,731	5,945	2,295	Siteki
Manzini	SZ.MA	WZ03	M2	5	319,530	4,070	1,571	Manzini
Shiselweni	SZ.SH	WZ04	S4	2	208,454	3,779	1,459	Nhlangano
4 regions					1,018,449	17,363	6,703
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. If periods are replaced by hyphens, these are the same as the region codes from the standard ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Code: Swaziland's postal codes have the format annn, where a is a letter and n is a digit. The letter and first digit are determined by the region. The letter also appears as the rightmost character on license plates of vehicles registered in the region (source [2]). Phone: First digit of telephone access code for places in the region. Population: 2007-05-12 census (source [3]).

Further subdivisions:

See the Constituencies of Swaziland page.

Swaziland is divided into four regions, which are subdivided into 55 tinkhundla (constituencies; singular, inkhundla), which are further subdivided into 360 imiphakatsi.

Territorial extent: 

The UN LOCODE page  for Swaziland lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history: 

At the time of the 1946 census, Swaziland was divided into six districts.

District	Population
Bremersdorp	26,600
Hlatikulu	64,444
Mankaiana	28,916
Mbabane	22,090
Pigg's Peak	22,187
Stegi	20,978
Total	185,215
Population: 1946-05-07 census (source [6]).

1. 1963-12: Swaziland was reorganized from six districts into four districts.
2. ~1980: Capital of Shiselweni district moved from Hlatikulu to Nhlangano.
3. 2005-07-26: Under the new constitution, status of districts changed to regions.

Other names of subdivisions: 

Shiselweni: Shiselwini (variant)

Population history:

Region	1966-05-24	1976-08-25	1986-08-25	1997-05-12	2007-05-12
Hhohho	96,000	135,481	178,936	262,203	282,734
Lubombo	82,000	139,345	153,958	198,109	207,731
Manzini	101,000	114,492	192,596	287,949	319,530
Shiselweni	96,000	107,617	155,569	217,598	208,454
Total	375,000	496,935	681,059	965,859	1,018,449

 

Data sources: 1966 - [4]; 1976 - [5]; 1997 - [1]; 2007 - [3]

Sources: 

1. [1] "1997 Population and Housing census of Swaziland", provisional results. Common Country Assessment - Swaziland, 1997 , Environmental Centre for Swaziland. Retrieved 2001-08-06. Totals include persons outside Swaziland.
2. [2] Where's That Vehicle Come From? , retrieved 2009-01-31.
3. [3] National Development Data Centre , retrieved 2010-05-22.
4. [4] Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition, Chicago, 1984.
5. [5] Almanaque Abril '85, Editora Abril, São Paulo, 1985.
6. [6] Demographic Yearbook , 7th Ed. Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, 1955 (retrieved 2011-08-20).