Eswatini
Capital: Mbabane · Southern Africa
One of Africa's last executive monarchies, where the Incwala kingship ceremony and the Umhlanga reed dance renew the Swazi nation each year.
Ethnic communities
More communities of Eswatini
- Dlamini royal clan — The Ngwenyama's house at the nation's heart
- Bemdzabuko core clans — 'True Swazi' founding lineages
- Emakhandzambili clans — 'Found-ahead' peoples absorbed with rights
- Emafikamuva clans — Later-arrival lineages of the kingdom
- Nkhosi lineages — Chiefly houses across the four regions
- Highveld herding folk — Mountain cattle-post communities
- Middleveld farmers — The maize-and-homestead heartland
- Lubombo communities — Eastern ridge's mixed farming villages
- Cane-belt families — Lowveld sugar-estate communities
- Sotho-descended villages — Border-hill communities of mixed speech
- Tsonga-Shangaan kin — Eastern families of Mozambique links
- Craft lineages — Grass-weave, wood and bead heritage makers
Languages
Major languages: siSwati, English
Language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu, Nguni)
Historical kingdoms & states
- • Kingdom of Eswatini (Swazi Kingdom)
Heritage sites
- • Ngwenya Mine (world's oldest known mine)
- • Malolotja
Cultural highlights
Incwala first-fruits ceremonyUmhlanga reed danceSibhaca dance