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Masvingo Province

Great Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe is a complex of ruins built by Shona-speaking people between the 13th and 14th centuries. It was once the centre of a vast empire known as the Munhumutapa Empire. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ruined city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo, was once the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country’s Late Iron Age
  • Also known as: “Great Zimbabwe National Monument” and “Zimbabye”

Great Zimbabwe

Latitude
-20.2709° or 20° 16′ 15″ south
Longitude
30.9332° or 30° 55′ 60″ east
Elevation
1,130 metres (3,707 feet)
Open location code
5GFGPWHM+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2492683868
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
9855410
Wiki­data ID
Q209217
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Zimbabwe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “groot zimbabwe ruines”
  • Afrikaans: “Groot-Zimbabwe”
  • Arabic: “زيمبابوي العظمى”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Զիմբաբվե”
  • Asturian: “Gran Zimbabue”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Zimbabve”
  • Bashkir: “Бөйөк Зимбабве”
  • Basque: “Zimbabwe Handia”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Зімбабве”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Зімбабвэ”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Зымбабвэ”
  • Bulgarian: “Велико Зимбабве”
  • Burmese: “ဂရိတ်ဇင်ဘာဘွေမြို့ဟောင်း”
  • Catalan: “Gran Zimbàbue”
  • Catalan: “Gran Zimbabwe”
  • Chinese: “大津巴布韋”
  • Chinese: “大津巴布韦”
  • Chinese: “大津巴布韦遗址”
  • Chinese: “大辛巴威”
  • Chinese: “大辛巴威古城”
  • Chinese: “大辛巴威遺址”
  • Croatian: “Veliki Zimbabve”
  • Czech: “Velké Zimbabwe”
  • Dagbani: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Danish: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Dutch: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Dutch: “Groot Zimbabwe”
  • Dutch: “Groot-Zimbabwe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زيمبابوى العظمى”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Zimbabvo”
  • Esperanto: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Estonian: “Suur Zimbabwe”
  • Finnish: “Suur-Zimbabwe”
  • French: “Grand Zimbabwe”
  • French: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • French: “Monument national du Grand Zimbabwe”
  • Galician: “Gran Zimbabwe”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ზიმბაბვე”
  • German: “Alt-Zimbabwe”
  • German: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • German: “Great-Zimbabwe”
  • German: “Gross-Simbabwe”
  • German: “Groß-Simbabwe”
  • German: “Groß-Zimbabwe”
  • German: “Nationalmonument Groß-Simbabwe”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Ζιμπάμπουε”
  • Hebrew: “גרייט זימבבואה”
  • Hebrew: “זימבבואה הגדולה”
  • Hindi: “ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वे”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy-Zimbabwe nemzeti műemlék”
  • Indonesian: “Zimbabwe Raya”
  • Irish: “An tSiombáib Mhór”
  • Italian: “Grande Zimbabwe”
  • Italian: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Italian: “Regno di Zimbabwe”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ジンバブウェ遺跡”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ジンバブエ”
  • Japanese: “グレート・ジンバブエ遺跡”
  • Japanese: “グレートジンバブエ”
  • Japanese: “大ジンバブエ遺跡”
  • Kazakh: “Үлкен Зимбаве”
  • Korean: “그레이트 짐바브웨”
  • Korean: “그레이트짐바브웨”
  • Korean: “대 짐바브웨”
  • Kotava: “Zimbabwe”
  • Latin: “Magna Zimbabua”
  • Lithuanian: “Didžioji Zimbabvė”
  • Maithili: “ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वे”
  • Malagasy: “Lehibe Zimbaboe”
  • Malay: “Zimbabwe Raya”
  • Maltese: “Monument Nazzjonali ta‘ Żimbabwe l-Kbir”
  • Maltese: “Monument Nazzjonali ta’ Żimbabwe l-Kbir”
  • Maltese: “Żimbabwe l-Kbir”
  • Nepali: “ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Zimbabwe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruinbyen Zimbabwe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store Zimbabwe”
  • Norwegian: “Store Zimbabwe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gran Zimbabwe”
  • Persian: “زیمبابوه بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Wielkie Zimbabwe”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Zimbábue”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Zimbabwe”
  • Romanian: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Romanian: “Marele Zimbabwe”
  • Romanian: “Zimbabwe”
  • Russian: “Большой Зимбабве”
  • Russian: “Зимбабве”
  • Scots: “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Serbian: “Veliki Zimbabve”
  • Serbian: “Велики Зимбабве”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Zimbabve”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Zimbabwe”
  • Shona: “Masvingo eZimbabwe”
  • Slovenian: “Veliki Zimbabve”
  • Spanish: “Gran Zimbabue”
  • Spanish: “Gran Zimbabwe”
  • Spanish: “Monumento Nacional del Gran Zimbabue”
  • Spanish: “reino de Zimbabue”
  • Swahili: “Zimbabwe Kuu”
  • Swedish: “Stora Zimbabwe-ruinerna”
  • Swedish: “Stora Zimbabwe”
  • Tamil: “பெரிய ஜிம்பாப்வே”
  • Tatar: “Зур Зимбабве”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Zimbabve”
  • Ukrainian: “Велике Зімбабве”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Zimbabwe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Great Zimbabwe”
  • Welsh: “Simbabwe Fawr”
  • Wu Chinese: “大津巴布韦”
  • Yue Chinese: “大津巴布韋”

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