Machinga has a population of 1,418, making it the 37th largest place we list in Malawi. It is in Southern Region.
Machinga holds under a tenth of one per cent of Malawi's 22,785,535 people. Lilongwe, the largest place we list there, is 787 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 1,418 for Machinga in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Livingstonia | Northern Region | 5,552 |
| Chisumulu | Northern Region | 4,000 |
| Chiradzulu | Southern Region | 1,580 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.