Zimbabwe
Matabeleland
Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is a relaxed, elegant industrial city with wide tree-lined boulevards, in western . Several World Heritage sites, including historic monuments from the precolonial era and national parks, are within an hour's drive from Bulawayo, making it a great tourist destination.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe and Bulawayo Railway Museum.

Museum
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The is located in Bulawayo, , on Leopold Takawira Avenue. Designed by architect James Whalley, the museum officially opened in 1964, the museum contains exhibits illustrating the history, mineral wealth and wildlife of Zimbabwe, including the second largest mounted elephant in the world.

Museum
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is a railway museum located at Bulawayo railway station in that houses several exhibitions on the history of the railway system in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia.

Church
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The is the name given to a temple that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and serves as the seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bulawayo in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bradfield and Makokoba.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Suburb
Makhokhoba is a suburb of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It was the first black African township in the city. The suburb is named after the actions of Mr Fallon, the Native Commissioner, who used walk around with a stick.

Bulawayo

Latitude
-20.1561° or 20° 9′ 22″ south
Longitude
28.5887° or 28° 35′ 19″ east
Population
653,000
Elevation
1,348 metres (4,423 feet)
IATA airport code
BUQ
United Nations Location Code
ZW BUQ
Open location code
5GFCRHVQ+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4155841482
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
894701
Wiki­data ID
Q193250
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bulawayo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bulawayo”
  • Albanian: “Bulawayo”
  • Arabic: “بولاوايو”
  • Armenian: “Բուլավայո”
  • Asturian: “Bulawayo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bulavayo”
  • Basque: “Bulawayo”
  • Basque: “Bulawayoko metropolitar probintzia”
  • Bavarian: “Bulawayo”
  • Belarusian: “Булаваё”
  • Belarusian: “Булавая”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়ে”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়েও”
  • Bengali: “বুলাওয়ো”
  • Breton: “Bulawayo”
  • Bulgarian: “Булавайо”
  • Bulgarian: “Булавейо”
  • Catalan: “Bulawayo”
  • Cebuano: “Bulawayo (kapital sa lalawigan sa Zimbabwe)”
  • Cebuano: “Bulawayo”
  • Chinese: “布拉瓦約”
  • Chinese: “布拉瓦约”
  • Croatian: “Bulawayo”
  • Czech: “Bulawayo”
  • Danish: “Bulawayo”
  • Dutch: “Bulawayo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولاوايو”
  • Esperanto: “Bulawayo”
  • Estonian: “Bulawayo”
  • Finnish: “Bulawayo”
  • French: “Bulawayo”
  • Georgian: “ბულავაიო”
  • German: “Bulawayo”
  • German: “ZW-BU”
  • Greek: “Μπουλαουάγιο”
  • Gujarati: “બુલાવાયો”
  • Hausa: “Bulawayo”
  • Hebrew: “בולאוואיו”
  • Hindi: “बुलावायो”
  • Hindi: “बुलावेयो”
  • Hungarian: “Bulawayo”
  • Ido: “Bulawayo”
  • Indonesian: “Bulawayo”
  • Interlingue: “Bulawayo”
  • Irish: “Bulawayo”
  • Italian: “Bulawayo”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Bulawayo”
  • Japanese: “ブラワーヨ”
  • Japanese: “ブラワヨ”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಲವೇಯೋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Булавайо”
  • Korean: “불라와요”
  • Latvian: “Bulavajo”
  • Lithuanian: “Bulavajas”
  • Low German: “Bulawayo”
  • Malay: “Bulawayo”
  • Malayalam: “ബുലവായോ”
  • Marathi: “बुलावायो”
  • Moksha: “Булавайо”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bulawayo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bulawayo”
  • Norwegian: “Bulawayo”
  • Persian: “بولاوایو”
  • Polish: “Bulawayo”
  • Portuguese: “Bulavaio”
  • Portuguese: “Bulawayo”
  • Romanian: “Bulawayo”
  • Russian: “Булавайо”
  • Scots: “Bulawayo”
  • Serbian: “Bulavajo”
  • Serbian: “Bulawayo”
  • Serbian: “Булавајо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bulavajo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bulawayo”
  • Shona: “Bulawayo”
  • Silesian: “Bulawayo”
  • Sinhala: “බුලවායෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Bulawayo”
  • Spanish: “Bulawayo”
  • Swahili: “Bulawayo”
  • Swedish: “Bulawayo”
  • Tamil: “புலவாயோ”
  • Telugu: “బులావాయో”
  • Thai: “บูลาวาโย”
  • Turkish: “Bulawayo”
  • Ukrainian: “Булавайо”
  • Urdu: “بولاوایو”
  • Uzbek: “Bulavayo”
  • Venetian: “Bulawayo”
  • Vietnamese: “Bulawayo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bulawayo”
  • Welsh: “Bulawayo”
  • Western Mari: “Булавайо”
  • Wu Chinese: “布拉瓦约”
  • Zulu: “Bulawayo, Zimbabwe”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Bulawayo”. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 3.0.