The district covers an area of 1,715 km.²1.
[1] It is also has crossroads leading to Makwasa, Molere, Konzalendo, Thekerani into Muona and eventually Nsanje leading to another border with Mozambique.
Malawi Government, Thyolo District Council, Socio-economic Profile,2017-2022 At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Thyolo District by ethnic group was as follows:[2] There are seven National Assembly constituencies in Thyolo:
Since the 2009 election all of these constituencies have been held by members of the Democratic Progressive Party.
[3] Thyolo is one of the southernmost districts of Malawi, and is bordered by 5 others as well as Mozambique.