Zimbabwe
Matabeleland
Matabeleland North

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls is a town in the western portion of , across the border from , , and near . The town lies immediately next to the falls, and they are the major attraction, but this popular tourist destination offers both adventure seekers and sightseers plenty of opportunities for a longer stay.
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  • Type: Cliff with an elevation of 892 metres
  • Description: waterfall on the Zambezi River in Zambia and Zimbabwe
  • Also known as: “Amanza Tunqayo”, “Chino Timba”, “Mosi-Oa-Toenja”, “Mosi-oa-Tunya”, and “Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls”
Photo: Revention24, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Victoria Falls Bridge and Victoria Falls railway station.

Bridge
Photo: Benjism89, Public domain.
The crosses the Zambezi River just below the Victoria Falls and is built over the Second Gorge of the falls. As the river forms the border between and , the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends, at the towns of , , and , .

Railway station
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Victoria Falls.

Town
Photo: Chris Eason, CC BY 2.0.
, popularly known as Vic Falls, is a resort town and city in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of themselves.

Victoria Falls

Latitude
-17.9242° or 17° 55′ 27″ south
Longitude
25.8531° or 25° 51′ 11″ east
Elevation
892 metres (2,927 feet)
Open location code
5GJ73VG3+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5600856187
Geo­Names ID
879432
Wiki­data ID
Q43278
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Victoria Falls” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Victoria-waterval”
  • Albanian: “Ujëvarat e Viktorisë”
  • Arabic: “شلالات فكتوريا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات فيكتوريا”
  • Armenian: “Վիկտորիա”
  • Asturian: “Catarata Victoria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viktoriya şəlaləsi”
  • Bashkir: “Виктория (шарлауыҡ)”
  • Bashkir: “Виктория”
  • Basque: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Basque: “Victoria ur-jauzi”
  • Basque: “Victoria ur-jauziak”
  • Bavarian: “Victoria Falls”
  • Belarusian: “Вадаспад Вікторыя”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্টোরিয়া জলপ্রপাত”
  • Bhojpuri: “विक्टोरिया झरना”
  • Bulgarian: “Виктория”
  • Burmese: “ဝိတိုရိယရေတံခွန်”
  • Catalan: “cascades Victòria”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Victòria”
  • Catalan: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Catalan: “Victoria Falls”
  • Cebuano: “Victoria Falls”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞大瀑布”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞瀑布”
  • Chinese: “维多利亚瀑布”
  • Chinese: “莫西奥图尼亚瀑布”
  • Chuvash: “Виктори”
  • Cornish: “Dowrlammow Victoria”
  • Croatian: “Viktorijini slapovi”
  • Croatian: “Viktorijini vodopadi”
  • Czech: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Czech: “Viktoriiny vodopády”
  • Danish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Danish: “Victoria Falls”
  • Danish: “Victoria vandfaldet”
  • Danish: “Victoria-faldene”
  • Danish: “Victoria-faldet”
  • Danish: “Victoria-vandfaldene”
  • Danish: “Victoriafaldene”
  • Dhivehi: “ވިކްޓޯރިއާ ފޯލް”
  • Dutch: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Dutch: “Victoria-watervallen”
  • Dutch: “Victoriavallen”
  • Dutch: “Victoriawatervallen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شلالات فيكتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Akvofalego Viktoria”
  • Esperanto: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Esperanto: “Viktoria Akvofalo”
  • Estonian: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Estonian: “Victoria juga”
  • Estonian: “Viktooria juga”
  • Finnish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Finnish: “Victorian putoukset”
  • Finnish: “Viktorian putoukset”
  • French: “chutes Victoria”
  • French: “Chutes Victoria”
  • French: “Les chutes Victoria”
  • French: “Mosi-oa-Tunya / Chutes Victoria”
  • French: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • French: “Victoria falls”
  • Galician: “Cataratas Victoria”
  • Georgian: “ვიქტორია”
  • German: “Devil’s Pool”
  • German: “Mosa oa Tunya”
  • German: “Mosi oa Tunya”
  • German: “Victoria-Fälle”
  • German: “Victoriafälle”
  • German: “Viktoriafälle”
  • Greek: “Καταρράκτες Βικτωρίας”
  • Guarani: “Chororo Victoria”
  • Hausa: “Faɗuwar ruwan Victoria”
  • Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי מפלי ויקטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “מפל ויקטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי ויקטוריה”
  • Hindi: “मोसी-ओआ-तुन्या”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया जलप्रपात”
  • Hungarian: “Viktória-vízesés”
  • Icelandic: “Viktoríufossar”
  • Ido: “Aquofalo Viktoria”
  • Iloko: “Dissuor a Victoria”
  • Iloko: “Dissuor Victoria”
  • Indonesian: “Air terjun Victoria”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria Falls”
  • Irish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Italian: “cascate Vittoria”
  • Italian: “Cascate Vittoria”
  • Italian: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Italian: “Victoria Falls”
  • Italian: “Vittoria”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリアの滝”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリアフォールズ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア滝”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア瀑布”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア・フォールズ”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリアの滝”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリアフォールズ”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア滝”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア瀑布”
  • Japanese: “モシ・オ・トゥニャ”
  • Japanese: “モシオトゥニャ”
  • Kabiyè: “Fiktooriya lɩmfalɩyɛ”
  • Kabiyè: “Fiktooriya lɩmwadɩyɛ”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಜಲಪಾತ”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория сарқырамасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Виктория шаркыратмасы”
  • Korean: “빅토리아 폭포”
  • Kotava: “Victoria Stoya”
  • Latin: “Victoria (aqua cadens)”
  • Latin: “Victoria”
  • Latvian: “Viktorijas ūdenskritums”
  • Lithuanian: “Viktorijos krioklys”
  • Luxembourgish: “Victoria Falls”
  • Macedonian: “Викториини Водопади”
  • Malay: “Air terjun Victoria”
  • Malay: “Air Terjun Victoria”
  • Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം”
  • Maltese: “Kaskati ta‘ Vitorja”
  • Maltese: “Kaskati ta’ Vitorja”
  • Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया धबधबा”
  • Mazanderani: “ويکتوريا”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتوریا”
  • Northern Sami: “Victoria goržžit”
  • Northern Sami: “Victoriagoržžit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoria Falls”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoriafallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Viktoriafallene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoriafalla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoriafallene”
  • Norwegian: “Victoriafallene”
  • Nyanja: “Victoria Falls”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝਰਨਾ”
  • Persian: “آبشار ویکتوریا”
  • Persian: “ابشار ویکتوریا”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Victoria Falls”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Wodospadów Wiktorii”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Wodospady Wiktorii”
  • Polish: “Victoria Falls National Park”
  • Polish: “Wodospad Wiktorii”
  • Polish: “Wodospady Wiktorii”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas de Vitória”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas Victória”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas Vitória”
  • Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Victoria Falls”
  • Portuguese: “Quedas de vitória”
  • Portuguese: “Quedas Vitória”
  • Portuguese: “Victoria falls”
  • Quechua: “Ñansa phaqcha”
  • Quechua: “Ñansa phuyu ñawikuna”
  • Romanian: “Cascada Victoria”
  • Romanian: “Victoria Falls”
  • Romanian: “Victoria”
  • Russian: “Виктория”
  • Russian: “Водопад Виктория”
  • Russian: “Мозиватунья”
  • Serbian: “Викторијини водопади”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Viktorijini slapovi”
  • Shona: “Victoria Falls”
  • Sindhi: “وڪٽوريا آبشار”
  • Slovak: “Viktóriine vodopády”
  • Slovenian: “Viktorijini slapovi”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas de Victoria”
  • Spanish: “cataratas Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Mosi oa Tunya”
  • Spanish: “Mosi oa-Tunya”
  • Spanish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Mosi oa Tunya”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Victoria Falls”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Viktoria”
  • Swahili: “Mosi oa Tunya”
  • Swahili: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Swahili: “Victoria Falls”
  • Swedish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Swedish: “Victoriafallen”
  • Swedish: “Viktoriafallen”
  • Tajik: “Виктория (шаршара)”
  • Tajik: “Виктория”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா அருவி”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோறியா நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Tatar: “Виктория шарлавыгы”
  • Telugu: “విక్టోరియా జలపాతం”
  • Thai: “น้ำตกวิกตอเรีย”
  • Thai: “น้ำตกวิคตอเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Turkish: “Victoria Çavlanı”
  • Turkish: “Victoria Falls”
  • Turkish: “Victoria Şelaleleri”
  • Turkish: “Victoria Şelalesi”
  • Turkish: “Viktorya Şelaleleri”
  • Turkish: “Viktorya Şelaleri”
  • Turkish: “Viktorya Şelalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
  • Ukrainian: “Водоспад Вікторія”
  • Urdu: “موسی-او-تونیا”
  • Urdu: “وکٹوریا آبشار”
  • Urdu: “وکٹوریہ آبشار”
  • Uzbek: “Victoria”
  • Uzbek: “Viktoriya (sharshara)”
  • Vietnamese: “Các thác nước Victoria”
  • Vietnamese: “Thác Victoria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busay Victoria”
  • Welsh: “Mosi-oa-Tunya”
  • Welsh: “Rhaeadr Fictoria”
  • Welsh: “Rhaeadr Victoria”
  • Welsh: “Rhaeadrau Fictoria”
  • Welsh: “Rhaeadrau Victoria”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիքթորիա (ջրվէժ)”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիքթորիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Fiktoariawetterfallen”
  • Western Frisian: “Fiktoriawetterfallen”
  • Western Frisian: “Victoriawetterfallen”
  • Western Frisian: “Vikctoriawetterfallen”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریہ آبشار”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریہ چھمبر”
  • Wu Chinese: “维多利亚瀑布”
  • Yiddish: “וויקטאריע וואסערפאלן”
  • Yue Chinese: “維多利亞瀑布”
  • “विक्टोरिया झरना”

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