Hwange
Hwange, originally known as Wankie, is a town in Zimbabwe, located in Hwange District, in Matabeleland North Province, in northwestern Zimbabwe, close to the international borders with Botswana and Zambia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 39,800 residents
- Description: city in Zimbabwe
- Also known as: “Wange”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hwange Town Airport and Hwange Thermal Power Station.
Hwange Town Airport
Aerodrome
Hwange Town Airport is an airport serving Hwange, a mining town in Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. The runway is adjacent to the town.
Hwange Thermal Power Station
Power station
Photo: MaltaGC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hwange Thermal Power Station is the biggest power plant in Zimbabwe with an installed capacity of 1520 MW. It is owned and operated by the national electricity company Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority. Hwange Thermal Power Station is situated 4 km southwest of Hwange.
Hwange
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Hwange District, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.36472° or 18° 21′ 53″ southLongitude
26.5° or 26° 30′ eastPopulation
39,800Elevation
767 metres (2,516 feet)IATA airport code
WKIUnited Nations Location Code
ZW WKIOpen location code
5GH8JGP2+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 11207765884OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
889942Wikidata ID
Q1202229
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hwange” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hwange”
- Afrikaans: “Wankie”
- Arabic: “هوانج”
- Arabic: “هوانغي”
- Asturian: “Hwange”
- Bavarian: “Hwange”
- Cebuano: “Hwange”
- Chinese: “万基”
- Chinese: “萬基”
- Chinese: “萬蓋”
- Czech: “Hwange”
- Danish: “Hwange”
- Danish: “Wankie”
- Dutch: “Hwange”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوانج”
- Finnish: “Hwange”
- French: “Hwange”
- German: “Hwange”
- Italian: “Hwange”
- Japanese: “ワンゲ”
- Korean: “황게”
- Korean: “흐왕게”
- Lithuanian: “Hvangė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hwange”
- Norwegian: “Hwange”
- Polish: “Hwange”
- Polish: “Wankie”
- Portuguese: “Hwange”
- Romanian: “Hwange”
- Russian: “Хванге”
- Serbian: “Hvange”
- Serbian: “Хванге”
- Spanish: “Hwange”
- Swahili: “Hwange”
- Swedish: “Hwange”
- Ukrainian: “Хванге”
- Zulu: “Hwange”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hwange Colliery Hospital and Hwange Post Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hwange”. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0.