The district covers an area of 3,041 km².Dowa is about 38 kilometers away from Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe . The population is projected to reach over 700,000 by 2018.

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Dowa
Mponela
(MVERA roadblock)

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

91.8% Chewa
5.9% Ngoni
0.6% Yao
0.6% Tumbuka
0.5% Lomwe
0.1% Tonga
0.1% Mang’anja
0.1% Sena
0.0% Nkhonde
0.0% Lambya
0.0% Nyanja
0.0% Sukwa
0.3% Others