Blantyre is a
district in the
Southern Region of
Malawi. The capital is
Blantyre, a commercial city where most Malawian industrial and business offices are. The district covers an area of 2,012 km² and has a population of 809,397. It was named after
Blantyre, the birth village of
Dr David Livingstone in Scotland, one of the first missionary explorers who came to
Nyasaland, as Malawi was originally called before independence. It is also a main trading point besides the other large cities in Malawi.