Mazowe
Mazowe is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. The origin of the name Mazowe or Mazoe, according to Phillippa Berlyn, writing in 1970, the name is a corruption of the word manzou, or nyanzou, meaning the “place of the elephants”.Mazowe
- Type: Village with 6,560 residents
- Description: human settlement in Zimbabwe
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-17.50699° or 17° 30′ 25″ south
Longitude
30.97295° or 30° 58′ 23″ east
Population
6,560
Elevation
1,249 metres (4,098 feet)
Open location code
5GJGFXVF+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Mazowe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مازووي”
- Bavarian: “Mazowe”
- Belarusian: “Мазоўе”
- Cebuano: “Mazowe”
- Chinese: “马佐维”
- Czech: “Mazowe”
- Dutch: “Mazowe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مازووى”
- Irish: “Mazowe”
- Russian: “Мазоэ”
- Shona: “Mazowe”
- Swahili: “Mazowe”
- Zulu: “Mazowe”
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