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.- 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″ south
Longitude
30.43998° or 30° 26′ 24″ east
Elevation
1,240 metres (4,068 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZW ZMW
Open location code
5GHGWCFQ+RX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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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