Gweru
Gweru, historically known as Gwelo, is the capital city of Zimbabwe's Midlands Province. Founded in 1894 as a military outpost by Leander Starr Jameson. the settlement grew from an area originally called "The Steep Place" by the Ndebele people, a reference to the high banks of the Gweru River.- Type: City with 141,000 residents
- Description: city in Zimbabwe
- Also known as: “Gwelo”, “그웨루”, and “圭魯”
Gweru
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Midlands Province, Southeastern Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-19.4616° or 19° 27′ 42″ south
Longitude
29.8206° or 29° 49′ 14″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
1,412 metres (4,633 feet)
IATA airport code
GWE
UN/LOCODE
ZW GWE
Open location code
5GGFGRQC+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gweru” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gweru”
- Amharic: “ግወሩ”
- Arabic: “جويرو”
- Arabic: “غويرو”
- Armenian: “Գվերու”
- Asturian: “Gweru”
- Azerbaijani: “Gweru”
- Basque: “Gweru”
- Bavarian: “Gweru”
- Belarusian: “Гверу”
- Belarusian: “Гвэру”
- Bengali: “গ্বেরু”
- Bengali: “গ্যেরু”
- Bulgarian: “Гверу”
- Bulgarian: “Гуеру”
- Catalan: “Gweru”
- Cebuano: “Gweru District”
- Cebuano: “Gweru”
- Chinese: “圭洛”
- Chinese: “圭鲁”
- Croatian: “Gweru”
- Czech: “Gweru”
- Danish: “Gweru”
- Dutch: “Gweru”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جويرو”
- Esperanto: “Gweru”
- Finnish: “Gweru”
- French: “Gweru”
- German: “Gweru”
- Greek: “Κβέρου”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વેરુ”
- Hausa: “Gweru”
- Hebrew: “גוורו”
- Hindi: “ग्वेरु”
- Indonesian: “Gweru”
- Irish: “Gweru”
- Italian: “Gweru”
- Japanese: “グウェル”
- Japanese: “グウェルゥ”
- Javanese: “Gweru”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ವೆರು”
- Kazakh: “Гвру”
- Kirghiz: “Гвру”
- Korean: “궤루”
- Latvian: “Gveru”
- Lithuanian: “Gveru”
- Malay: “Gweru”
- Marathi: “ग्वेरु”
- Northern Frisian: “Gweru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gweru”
- Norwegian: “Gweru”
- Oromo: “Gweru”
- Panjabi: “ਗਵੇਰੂ”
- Persian: “گورو”
- Persian: “گویرو”
- Polish: “Gweru”
- Portuguese: “Gweru”
- Pushto: “گویرو”
- Romanian: “Gweru”
- Russian: “Гверу”
- Russian: “Гвру”
- Serbian: “Gveru”
- Serbian: “Гверу”
- Shona: “Gweru”
- Silesian: “Gweru”
- Sinhala: “ග්වේරු”
- Slovak: “Gweru”
- Slovenian: “Gweru”
- Somali: “Gweru”
- Spanish: “Gweru”
- Swahili: “Gweru”
- Swedish: “Gweru”
- Tajik: “Гвру”
- Tamil: “குவெரூ”
- Tatar: “Гвру”
- Telugu: “గ్వేరు”
- Thai: “กเวรู”
- Turkish: “Gweru”
- Ukrainian: “Гверу”
- Ukrainian: “Ґверу”
- Urdu: “گویرو”
- Uzbek: “Gweru”
- Venetian: “Gweru”
- Vietnamese: “Gweru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gweru”
- Western Mari: “Гверу”
- Zulu: “Gweru”
- “Gweru”
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