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Harare

Harare

Harare is the capital and largest city in . Harare has an excellent highland climate and well-planned garden suburbs that are very pleasant to walk around in.
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  • Type: City with 1,610,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Zimbabwe
  • Also known as: “Fort Salisbury”, “Salisbury, Rhodesia”, and “Salisbury, Zimbabwe”
  • Historically known as: “Salisbury”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eastgate Centre and Sacred Heart Cathedral, Harare.

Shopping center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a shopping centre and office block in the business centre of Harare, , designed by Mick Pearce and built by Ove Arup and Partners. It is a unique example of building ventilated and cooled entirely by natural means.

Church
Photo: Dave Duarte, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and is located on Fourth Street in central Harare, .

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mbare and Belvedere.

Suburb
, originally known as Harari, is a suburb in the south of Harare, Zimbabwe. Founded in 1907 as a township, it includes an informal settlement. Musika is the largest farm produce market in Zimbabwe.

Suburb
is a suburb of Harare, the capital city and the largest metropolitan area of . Though historically home to a notable Indian population since 2012 has become known for its growing Chinese population, due to the construction of Longcheng Plaza.

Suburb
Avondale is a residential suburb in north and northwest Harare, , located about 3.5 kilometres north of Harare city centre and just west of .

Harare

Latitude
-17.8318° or 17° 49′ 54″ south
Longitude
31.0457° or 31° 2′ 45″ east
Population
1,610,000
Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)
IATA airport code
HRE
United Nations Location Code
ZW HRE
Open location code
5GJH529W+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282335934
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
890299
Wiki­data ID
Q3921
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Harare” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Harare”
  • Albanian: “Harare”
  • Amharic: “ሀራሬ”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة زيمبابوي”
  • Arabic: “هراري”
  • Aragonese: “Harare”
  • Armenian: “Հարարե”
  • Asturian: “H.arare”
  • Asturian: “Harare”
  • Asturian: “Ḥarare”
  • Azerbaijani: “Harare”
  • Balinese: “Harare”
  • Bashkir: “Хараре”
  • Basque: “Harare”
  • Bavarian: “Harare”
  • Belarusian: “Солзбэры”
  • Belarusian: “Харарэ”
  • Bengali: “সালিসবুরী”
  • Bengali: “হারারে”
  • Bosnian: “Harare”
  • Breton: “Harare”
  • Bulgarian: “Хараре”
  • Burmese: “ဟာရာ့ရီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Harare”
  • Cebuano: “Harare District”
  • Cebuano: “Harare”
  • Central Kanuri: “Harare”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەراری”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرارێ”
  • Chechen: “Хараре”
  • Chinese: “Harare”
  • Chinese: “哈拉雷”
  • Croatian: “Harare”
  • Czech: “Harare”
  • Danish: “Harare”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Harare”
  • Dutch: “Harare”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هارارى”
  • Esperanto: “Harare”
  • Esperanto: “Harareo”
  • Esperanto: “Hararo”
  • Estonian: “Harare”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Harare”
  • Finnish: “Harare”
  • French: “Harare”
  • Ga: “Harare”
  • Galician: “Harare”
  • Georgian: “ჰარარე”
  • German: “Harare”
  • Greek: “Χαράρε”
  • Guarani: “Harare”
  • Gujarati: “હરારે”
  • Haitian: “Arare”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Harare”
  • Hausa: “Harare”
  • Hebrew: “הארארה”
  • Hindi: “हरारे”
  • Hungarian: “Harare”
  • Icelandic: “Harare”
  • Ido: “Harare”
  • Inari Sami: “Harare”
  • Indonesian: “Harare”
  • Interlingua: “Harare”
  • Interlingue: “Harare”
  • Irish: “Harare”
  • Italian: “Harare”
  • Italian: “Salisbury”
  • Japanese: “ソールズベリー”
  • Japanese: “ハラレ”
  • Javanese: “Harare”
  • Kabiyè: “Harare”
  • Kabyle: “Harare”
  • Kannada: “ಹರಾರೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Хараре”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Harare”
  • Kirghiz: “Хараре”
  • Kongo: “Harare”
  • Korean: “하라레”
  • Kotava: “Harare”
  • Kurdish: “Harare”
  • Latin: “Harare”
  • Latin: “Hararensis Urbs”
  • Latvian: “Harare”
  • Ligurian: “Harare”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Harare”
  • Lithuanian: “Hararė”
  • Lombard: “Harare”
  • Luxembourgish: “Harare”
  • Macedonian: “Хараре”
  • Malagasy: “Harare”
  • Malay: “Harare”
  • Malayalam: “ഹരാരെ”
  • Maltese: “Harare”
  • Marathi: “हरारे”
  • Mazanderani: “هراره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Harare”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harare”
  • Minangkabau: “Harare”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰარარე”
  • Mirandese: “Ḥarare”
  • Moksha: “Гарарэ”
  • Mongolian: “Хараре”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هاراري”
  • Navajo: “Tówoł Hadahiilíinii”
  • Nepali: “हरारे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Harare”
  • Northern Sami: “Harare”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harare”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harare”
  • Norwegian: “Harare”
  • Novial: “Harare”
  • Nyanja: “Harare”
  • Obolo: “Arare”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Harare”
  • Oriya: “ହାରାରେ”
  • Ossetian: “Хараре”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਰਾਰੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Harare”
  • Persian: “هراره”
  • Piemontese: “Harare”
  • Polish: “Harare”
  • Portuguese: “Harare”
  • Pushto: “هراره”
  • Romanian: “Harare”
  • Russian: “Солсбери”
  • Russian: “Хараре”
  • Sakizaya: “Halalay”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱨᱟᱨᱮ”
  • Sardinian: “Harare”
  • Scots: “Harare”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Harare”
  • Serbian: “Хараре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harare”
  • Shona: “Harare”
  • Silesian: “Harare”
  • Sindhi: “هراري”
  • Sinhala: “හරාරේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Harare”
  • Slovak: “Harare”
  • Slovenian: “Harare”
  • Somali: “Harare”
  • Spanish: “Harare (Zimbabue)”
  • Spanish: “Harare”
  • Swahili: “Harare”
  • Swati: “Harare”
  • Swedish: “Harare”
  • Swedish: “Salisbury”
  • Tagalog: “Harare”
  • Tajik: “Хараре”
  • Tajik: “Ҳараре”
  • Talysh: “Harare”
  • Tamil: “ஹராரே”
  • Tamil: “ஹாரர்”
  • Tatar: “Һараре”
  • Telugu: “హరారే”
  • Thai: “ฮาราเร”
  • Tibetan: “ཧ་ར་རི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Harare”
  • Turkish: “Harare”
  • Turkmen: “Harare”
  • Tyap: “Harare”
  • Tyap: “Salisbok”
  • Udmurt: “Хараре”
  • Uighur: “ھارارې”
  • Ukrainian: “Хараре”
  • Urdu: “ہرارے”
  • Uzbek: “Xarare”
  • Venda: “Harare”
  • Venetian: “Harare”
  • Veps: “Harare”
  • Vietnamese: “Harare”
  • Volapük: “Harare”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Harare”
  • Welsh: “Harare”
  • Western Frisian: “Harare”
  • Western Mari: “Хараре”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہرارے”
  • Wolof: “Arare”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈拉雷”
  • Yiddish: “הארארע”
  • Yoruba: “Harare”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈拉雷”
  • Zulu: “IHarara”
  • Zulu: “IHarare”
  • “Harare”

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