Chinhoyi
Chinhoyi, previously known as Sinoia during the colonial era, is a city in central northern Zimbabwe in the Makonde District. It has a population of 90,800 and is primarily a college town, although it was originally founded as an Italian group settlement scheme.Photo: Suesen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Suesen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 56,800 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Chinoyi” and “Sinoia”
Chinhoyi
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Mashonaland West, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.3615° or 17° 21′ 42″ southLongitude
30.1929° or 30° 11′ 35″ eastPopulation
56,800Elevation
1,153 metres (3,783 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZW Z45Open location code
5GJGJ5QV+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 3028263335OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chinhoyi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chinhoyi”
- Amharic: “ችንሆይ”
- Arabic: “تشينهوي”
- Asturian: “Chinhoyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Chinhoyi”
- Basque: “Chinhoyi”
- Bavarian: “Chinhoyi”
- Belarusian: “Чыной”
- Bengali: “চিনহয়ী”
- Bulgarian: “Чинхоий”
- Catalan: “Chinhoyi”
- Cebuano: “Chinhoyi”
- Chechen: “Чинхойи”
- Chinese: “奇諾伊”
- Croatian: “Chinhoyi”
- Danish: “Chinhoyi”
- Dutch: “Chinhoyi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشينهوى”
- French: “Chinhoyi”
- German: “Chinhoyi”
- Hausa: “Chinhoyi”
- Hebrew: “קרב סינויה”
- Hindi: “चिनहोयी”
- Indonesian: “Chinhoyi”
- Italian: “Chinhoyi”
- Japanese: “チノイ”
- Japanese: “チンホイ”
- Javanese: “Chinhoyi”
- Kazakh: “Чинхойи”
- Kirghiz: “Чинхойи”
- Lithuanian: “Činhojis”
- Malay: “Chinhoyi”
- Northern Frisian: “Chinhoyi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinhoyi”
- Norwegian: “Chinhoyi”
- Oromo: “Chinhoyi”
- Panjabi: “ਚਿਨਹੋਈ”
- Persian: “چینهویی”
- Polish: “Chinhoyi”
- Portuguese: “Chinhoyi”
- Pushto: “چينهوي”
- Romanian: “Chinhoyi”
- Russian: “Чинхойи”
- Serbian: “Чинои”
- Serbian: “Чинхоји”
- Shona: “Chinhoyi”
- Slovenian: “Chinhoyi”
- Somali: “Chinhoyi”
- Spanish: “Chinhoyi”
- Swahili: “Chinhoyi”
- Tajik: “Чинхойи”
- Tatar: “Чинхойи”
- Turkish: “Chinhoyi”
- Ukrainian: “Чингої”
- Ukrainian: “Чинхої”
- Urdu: “چینہوئی”
- Uzbek: “Chinhoyi”
- Western Mari: “Чинхойи”
- Zulu: “Chinhoyi”
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