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.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 1,130 metres (3,707 feet)
- 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”“Zimbabye”
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- Location
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Latitude
-20.2709° or 20° 16′ 15″ south
Longitude
30.9332° or 30° 55′ 60″ east
Open location code
5GFGPWHM+J7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Zimbabwe” goes by many names.
groot zimbabwe ruinesAfrikaans
Groot-ZimbabweAfrikaans
زيمبابوي العظمىArabic
Մեծ ԶիմբաբվեArmenian
Gran ZimbabueAsturian
Böyük ZimbabveAzerbaijani
Бөйөк ЗимбабвеBashkir
Zimbabwe HandiaBasque
Вялікі ЗімбабвеBelarusian
Вялікі ЗімбабвэBelarusian
Вялікі ЗымбабвэBelarusian
Велико ЗимбабвеBulgarian
ဂရိတ်ဇင်ဘာဘွေမြို့ဟောင်းBurmese
Gran ZimbàbueCatalan
Gran ZimbabweCatalan
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Chinese
Veliki ZimbabveCroatian
Velké ZimbabweCzech
Great ZimbabweDagbani
Great ZimbabweDanish
Great ZimbabweDutch
Groot-ZimbabweDutch
زيمبابوى العظمىEgyptian Arabic
Granda ZimbabvoEsperanto
Great ZimbabweEsperanto
Suur ZimbabweEstonian
Suur-ZimbabweFinnish
Gran ZimbabweGalician
დიდი ზიმბაბვეGeorgian
Μεγάλη ΖιμπάμπουεGreek
גרייט זימבבואהHebrew
זימבבואה הגדולהHebrew
ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वेHindi
Nagy-Zimbabwe nemzeti műemlékHungarian
Zimbabwe RayaIndonesian
An tSiombáib MhórIrish
Grande ZimbabweItalian
Great ZimbabweItalian
Regno di ZimbabweItalian
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
大ジンバブエ遺跡Japanese
Үлкен ЗимбавеKazakh
그레이트 짐바브웨Korean
대 짐바브웨Korean
ZimbabweKotava
Magna ZimbabuaLatin
Lielā ZimbabveLatvian
ZimbabveLatvian
Didžioji ZimbabvėLithuanian
Suuri-ZimbabweLivvi
ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वेMaithili
Lehibe ZimbaboeMalagasy
Zimbabwe RayaMalay
Monument Nazzjonali ta‘ Żimbabwe l-KbirMaltese
Żimbabwe l-KbirMaltese
ग्रेट जिम्बाब्वेNepali
Store ZimbabweNorwegian
Great ZimbabweNorwegian Bokmål
Store ZimbabweNorwegian Bokmål
Ruinbyen ZimbabweNorwegian Nynorsk
Store ZimbabweNorwegian Nynorsk
Gran ZimbabweOccitan (post 1500)
زیمبابوه بزرگPersian
Wielkie ZimbabwePolish
Marele ZimbabweRomanian
ZimbabweRomanian
Большой ЗимбабвеRussian
ЗимбабвеRussian
Great ZimbabweScots
Veliki ZimbabveSerbian
Велики ЗимбабвеSerbian
Veliki ZimbabveSerbo-Croatian
Veliki ZimbabweSerbo-Croatian
Masvingo eZimbabweShona
Veliki ZimbabveSlovenian
Zimbabwe KuuSwahili
Stora ZimbabweSwedish
Stora Zimbabwe-ruinernaSwedish
பெரிய ஜிம்பாப்வேTamil
Зур ЗимбабвеTatar
గ్రేట్ జింబాబ్వేTelugu
Büyük ZimbabveTurkish
Велике ЗімбабвеUkrainian
Đại ZimbabweVietnamese
Great ZimbabweWaray (Philippines)
Simbabwe FawrWelsh
大津巴布韦Wu Chinese
Zimbabwe ŃláYoruba
大津巴布韋Yue Chinese
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