Selous
Selous is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. It lies not far from Harare on the main Harare to Bulawayo road. It is named after the British explorer and hunter Frederick Selous.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Selous, Zimbabwe”
Selous
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-18.07548° or 18° 4′ 32″ southLongitude
30.43998° or 30° 26′ 24″ eastElevation
1,240 metres (4,068 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZW ZMWOpen location code
5GHGWCFQ+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3664272595OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
881505Wikidata ID
Q619085
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Selous” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيلوس ، زمبابوي”
- Arabic: “سيلوس، زيمبابوي”
- Arabic: “سيلوس”
- Dutch: “Selous”
- Irish: “Selous”
- Swahili: “Selous, Zimbabwe”
- Zulu: “Selous, Zimbabwe”
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