Bulawayo|city of kings|zimbabwe

The city was founded by the Ndebele king, Lobhengula, the son of King Mzilikazi who born of Matshobana who settled in modern-day Zimbabwe around the 1840s after the Ndebele people's great trek from Nguniland. The name Bulawayo comes from the Ndebele word KoBulawayo meaning "a place where he is being killed. It has an urban population of over 1.2 million