The population of EThekwini is 3,468,086.

The area of EThekwini is 2,291.9 square kilometers.

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eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is the Metropolitan Municipality created in 2000 that includes the city of Durban, South Africa and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The majority of its 3,090,126 people speak Zulu (2001 Census).

Durban has always been called Durban, The area was called Natal by Vasco da Gama when he sailed by at Christmas 1497. The Zulu name is eThekwini from iTheku meaning town