Masvingo

Masvingo is a city of about 90,000 in and the capital of Masvingo province. It is right by major Zimbabwe tourist attractions, such as and Lake Mutirikwe.
  • Type: City with 72,500 residents
  • Description: formerly known as Fort Victoria until 1982, is a city in southeastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province
  • Also known as: “Fort Victoria”, “Great Zimbabwe”, and “Nyanda”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Masvingo Airport.

Aerodrome
is an serving Masvingo, the capital of in .

Masvingo

Latitude
-20.072° or 20° 4′ 19″ south
Longitude
30.8342° or 30° 50′ 3″ east
Population
72,500
Elevation
1,091 metres (3,579 feet)
IATA airport code
MVZ
UN/LOCODE
ZW MVZ
Open location code
5GFGWRHM+5M
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Masvingo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Masvingo”
  • Amharic: “ማስቪንጎ”
  • Arabic: “ماسفينجو”
  • Arabic: “ماسفينغو”
  • Asturian: “Masvingo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Masvingo”
  • Basque: “Masvingo”
  • Bavarian: “Masvingo”
  • Belarusian: “Масвінга”
  • Bengali: “মাসভিঙ্গো”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাসভিঙ্গো”
  • Catalan: “Masvingo”
  • Cebuano: “Masvingo”
  • Chinese: “馬斯溫戈”
  • Croatian: “Masvingo”
  • Danish: “Masvingo”
  • Dutch: “Masvingo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماسفينجو”
  • Esperanto: “Masvingo”
  • Estonian: “Masvingo”
  • Finnish: “Masvingo”
  • French: “Masvingo”
  • German: “Masvingo”
  • Greek: “Μασβίνγκο”
  • Gujarati: “માસવિન્ગો”
  • Hausa: “Masvingo”
  • Hindi: “मास्विंगो”
  • Indonesian: “Masvingo”
  • Italian: “Masvingo”
  • Japanese: “マシンゴ”
  • Japanese: “マスビンゴ”
  • Javanese: “Masvingo”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸ್ವಿಂಗೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Масвинго”
  • Kirghiz: “Масвинго”
  • Korean: “마스빙고”
  • Latvian: “Masvingo”
  • Lithuanian: “Masvingas”
  • Malay: “Masvingo”
  • Marathi: “मासिविनओ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Masvingo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masvingo”
  • Norwegian: “Masvingo”
  • Oromo: “Masvingo”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਸਵਿੰਗੋ”
  • Persian: “ماسوینگو”
  • Polish: “Masvingo”
  • Portuguese: “Masvingo”
  • Pushto: “ماسوينګو”
  • Romanian: “Masvingo”
  • Russian: “Масвинго”
  • Serbian: “Машвинго”
  • Shona: “Masvingo”
  • Sinhala: “මස්වින්ගෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Masvingo”
  • Somali: “Masvingo”
  • Spanish: “Masvingo”
  • Swahili: “Masvingo”
  • Swedish: “Masvingo”
  • Tajik: “Масвинго”
  • Tamil: “மாசுவிங்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Масвинго”
  • Telugu: “మాస్విన్గొ”
  • Thai: “มาสวิงโก”
  • Turkish: “Masvingo”
  • Ukrainian: “Масвінго”
  • Ukrainian: “Масвінґо”
  • Urdu: “ماسونگو”
  • Urdu: “ماسوینگو”
  • Uzbek: “Masvingo”
  • Vietnamese: “Masvingo”
  • Western Mari: “Масвинго”
  • Zulu: “Masvingo”

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