Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. For those looking to travel in Africa, Zimbabwe is a great starting place. It is rich in fauna and flora and has numerous ancient stone cities including the largest in Africa south of the Sahara, Great Zimbabwe.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Harare and Victoria Falls.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is a relaxed, elegant industrial city with wide tree-lined boulevards, in western Zimbabwe.
Destinations to Discover
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Matabeleland
Matabeleland is a region in the southwest and west of Zimbabwe.
Mashonaland
Mashonaland is a region in northeastern Zimbabwe.
Southeastern Zimbabwe
Southeastern Zimbabwe is a region in Zimbabwe…
Eastern Highlands
The Eastern Highlands, also known as the Manica…
Lake Kariba-Lower Zambezi
Lake Kariba and the Lower Zambezi is a region in northern Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe
- Country with about 15,200,000 residents
- …has Harare as its capital
- …uses the Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
- …has the phone code 263
- …uses the internet domain .zw
- …covers 390,580 km² (150,804 miles²)
- Description: sovereign state in southern Africa
- Also known as“Republic of Zimbabwe”“State of Zimbabwe”“Zimbabwe/Rhodesia”“zm”
- Historically known as“Colony of Rhodesia”“Colony of Southern Rhodesia”“Republic of Rhodesia”“Rhodesia”“Southern Rhodesia”
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Latitude of center
-19° or 19° south
Longitude of center
29.9° or 29° 54′ east
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Zimbabwe” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Зимбабве”
- Afrikaans: “Zimbabwe”
- Afrikaans: “zm”
- Akan: “Zembabwe”
- Albanian: “Zimbabve”
- Albanian: “Zimbabvea”
- Albanian: “Zimbabveja”
- Amharic: “ዚምባብዌ”
- Amharic: “ዚምቧቤ”
- Amis: “Zimbabwa”
- Angika: “जिम्बाब्वे”
- Arabic: “جمهورية زيمبابوي”
- Arabic: “زيمبابوي”
- Aragonese: “Zimbabwe”
- Armenian: “Զիմբաբվե”
- Arpitan: “Zimbabouè”
- Assamese: “জিম্বাবৱে”
- Asturian: “República de Zimbabue”
- Asturian: “Zimbabue”
- Atayal: “Zimbabwa”
- Azerbaijani: “Zimbabve”
- Balinese: “Zimbabwe”
- Bambara: “Zimbabuwe”
- Bambara: “Zimbabwe”
- Banjar: “Zimbabwe”
- Bashkir: “Зимбабве”
- Basque: “Zimbabwe”
- Bavarian: “Simbabwe”
- Belarusian: “Зімбабвэ”
- Belarusian: “Зымбабвэ”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Радэзія”
- Bengali: “জিম্বাবোয়ে”
- Betawi: “Jimbabwé”
- Bhojpuri: “जिम्बाब्वे”
- Bishnupriya: “জিম্বাবুয়ে”
- Bislama: “Simbabue”
- Bosnian: “Zimbabve”
- Breton: “Zimbabwe”
- Bulgarian: “Зимбабве”
- Burmese: “ဇင်ဘာဘွေ”
- Burmese: “ဇင်ဘာဘွေနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “República de Zimbàbue”
- Catalan: “Zimbàbue”
- Catalan: “Zimbabwe”
- Cebuano: “Zimbabwe”
- Central Bikol: “Simbabwe”
- Central Kanuri: “Zimbabwe”
- Central Kurdish: “زیمبابوی”
- Chavacano: “Zimbabwe”
- Chechen: “Зимбабве”
- Cherokee: “ᏏᎻᏆᏇ”
- Cheyenne: “Zimbabwe”
- Chinese: “南罗德西亚”
- Chinese: “津巴布韋”
- Chinese: “津巴布韋共和國”
- Chinese: “津巴布韦 / 辛巴威”
- Chinese: “津巴布韦”
- Chinese: “津巴布韦共和国”
- Chinese: “辛巴威”
- Chuvash: “Зимбабве”
- Cornish: “Zimbabwe”
- Corsican: “Republica di u Zimbabue”
- Corsican: “Zimbabue”
- Crimean Tatar: “Zimbabve”
- Croatian: “Zimbabve”
- Czech: “Zimbabwe”
- Dagbani: “Zimbabwe”
- Danish: “Zimbabwe”
- Dhivehi: “ޒިމްބާބުވޭ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Zimbabwe”
- Dotyali: “जिम्बावे”
- Dutch: “Republiek Zimbabwe”
- Dutch: “Zimbabwe”
- Dzongkha: “ཛིམ་བྷབ་ཝེ”
- Dzongkha: “ཟིམ་བབ་ཝེ།”
- Eastern Mari: “Зимбабве”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيمبابوى”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Zimbabvo”
- Esperanto: “Zimbabvo”
- Estonian: “Zimbabwe Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Zimbabwe”
- Ewe: “Zimbabwe nutome”
- Ewe: “Zimbabwe”
- Extremaduran: “Zimbagüi”
- Farefare: “Zimbabwe”
- Faroese: “Simbabvi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Zimbabwe”
- Finnish: “Zimbabwe”
- Finnish: “Zimbabwen tasavalta”
- French: “République du Zimbabwé”
- French: “Zimbabwé”
- Fulah: “Simbaabuwe”
- Fulah: “Simmbaabuwe”
- Gagauz: “Zimbabve”
- Galician: “Cimbabue”
- Galician: “Zimbabwe”
- Ganda: “Zimbabwe”
- Georgian: “ზიმბაბვე”
- German: “Republik Rhodesien”
- German: “Republik Zimbabwe”
- German: “Rhodesien”
- German: “Simbabwe”
- German: “Südrhodesien” (historical)
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Zimbabwe”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rhodesia”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Southern Rhodesia”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zimbabwe Rhodesia”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zimbabwe”
- Gilaki: “زيمباوه”
- Gorontalo: “Zimbabwe”
- Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Ζιμπάμπουε”
- Greek: “Ζιμπάμπουε”
- Guarani: “Simbávue”
- Guianese Creole French: “Zimbabwé”
- Gujarati: “ઝિમ્બાબ્વે”
- Haitian: “Zimbabwe”
- Hakka Chinese: “Zimbabwe”
- Hausa: “Zimbabuwe”
- Hausa: “Zimbabwe”
- Hebrew: “זימבאבווה”
- Hebrew: “זימבבואה”
- Hindi: “ज़िम्बाब्वे”
- Hungarian: “Dél-Rhodézia”
- Hungarian: “Dél-Rodézia”
- Hungarian: “Zimbabwe”
- Hungarian: “Zimbabwei Köztársaság”
- Iban: “Zimbabwe”
- Icelandic: “Simbabve”
- Ido: “Zimbabwe”
- Igbo: “Zimbabwe”
- Iloko: “Zimbabwe”
- Inari Sami: “Zimbabwe täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Zimbabwe”
- Indonesian: “Zimbabwe”
- Interlingua: “Zimbabwe”
- Interlingue: “Zimbabwe”
- Irish: “An tSiombáib”
- Italian: “Rhodesia”
- Italian: “Zimbabwe”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Zimbabue”
- Japanese: “ジンバブエ”
- Japanese: “ジンバブエ共和国”
- Japanese: “南ローデシア”
- Javanese: “Simbabwe”
- Javanese: “Zimbabwé”
- Kabiyè: “Simbaabuwee”
- Kabyle: “Zimbabwe”
- Kalaallisut: “Zimbabwe”
- Kalmyk: “Зимбабвудин Орн”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಂಬಾಬ್ವೆ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Zimbabve Respublikası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Zimbabve”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Зимбабве Республикасы”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Зимбабве”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Зимбабве”
- Karekare: “Zimbabuwai”
- Kashmiri: “زِمبابوے”
- Kashmiri: “زِمبابے”
- Kashubian: “Zimbabwe”
- Kazakh: “Зимбабве”
- Khmer: “ប្រទេសហ្ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ”
- Khmer: “ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ”
- Khmer: “ហ្ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ”
- Kikuyu: “Zimbabwe”
- Kinyarwanda: “Zimbabwe”
- Kirghiz: “Зимбабве”
- Kölsch: “Simbabwe”
- Kongo: “Zimbabwe”
- Korean: “짐바브웨”
- Kotava: “Zimbabwea”
- Kuanyama: “Zimbabwe”
- Kurdish: “Zîmbabwe”
- Ladin: “Simbabue”
- Ladino: “Zimbabwe”
- Lao: “ຊິມບັບເວ”
- Latgalian: “Zimbabve”
- Latin: “Zimbabua”
- Latvian: “Zimbabve”
- Lezghian: “Зимбабве”
- Lezghian: “Респу́блика Зимба́бве”
- Ligurian: “Zimbabwe”
- Limburgan: “Zimbabwe”
- Lingala: “Zimbabwe”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Zimbabue”
- Literary Chinese: “津巴布韋”
- Literary Chinese: “津巴布韦”
- Literary Chinese: “辛巴威”
- Literary Chinese: “辛巴威共和國”
- Lithuanian: “Zimbabvė”
- Livvi: “Zimbabve”
- Livvi: “Zimbabwe”
- Lojban: “zimbabues”
- Lombard: “Zimbabwe”
- Low German: “Republik Zimbabwe”
- Low German: “Simbabwe”
- Low German: “Zimbabwe”
- Lower Sorbian: “Simbabwe”
- Luba-Katanga: “Zimbabwe”
- Luxembourgish: “Simbabwe”
- Macedonian: “Зимбабве”
- Madurese: “Zimbabwe”
- Malagasy: “Zimbaboe”
- Malay: “Zimbabwe”
- Malayalam: “സിംബാബ്വേ”
- Maltese: “iż-Żimbabwe”
- Maltese: “Repubblika taż-Żimbabwe”
- Maltese: “Żimbabwe”
- Manipuri: “ꯓꯤꯝꯕꯥꯕꯋꯦ”
- Manx: “Pobblaght y Çhimbabwe”
- Manx: “Shimbabwe”
- Manx: “y Çhimbabwe”
- Manx: “Yn Çhimbabwe”
- Maori: “Timuwawe”
- Marathi: “झिंबाब्वे”
- Marathi: “झिम्बाब्वे”
- Mazanderani: “زیمبابوه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Zimbabwe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zimbabwe”
- Minangkabau: “Zimbabwe”
- Mingrelian: “ზიმბაბვე”
- Mirandese: “Zimbabué”
- Moksha: “Зимбабвэ”
- Mon: “ဇြေမ်ဗာဗွေ”
- Mongolian: “Зимбабве”
- Moroccan Arabic: “زيمبابوي”
- Mossi: “Zimbabwe”
- Nauru: “Zimbabwe”
- Navajo: “Hooghan Tsé Bee Ádaalyaaí Bikéyah”
- Navajo: “Tsé Bee Bighan Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah”
- Nepali: “जिम्बाब्वे”
- Newari: “जिम्बाब्वे”
- Newari: “जिम्बावे”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Zimbabwe”
- North Ndebele: “Zimbabwe”
- Northern Frisian: “Simbabwe”
- Northern Luri: “زیمباڤە”
- Northern Sami: “Zimbabwe dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Zimbabwe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Zimbabwe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zimbabwe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zimbabwe”
- Norwegian: “Zimbabwe”
- Novial: “Zimbabwe”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Zimbabwe”
- Nyanja: “Zimbabwe”
- Obolo: “Zimbabuwe”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zimbabwe”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Simbabwe”
- Oriya: “ଜିମ୍ବାୱେ”
- Oromo: “Zimbaabuwee”
- Ossetian: “Зимбабве”
- Pali: “जिम्बाबवे”
- Pampanga: “Zimbabwe”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿੰਬਾਬਵੇ”
- Papiamento: “Zimbabwe”
- Pedi: “Zimbabwe”
- Pennsylvania German: “Simbabwe”
- Pennsylvania German: “Zimbabwe”
- Persian: “رودزیای جنوبی”
- Persian: “زیمبابوه”
- Picard: “Zimbabwe”
- Piemontese: “Zimbabwe”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Zimbabwe”
- Polish: “Zimbabwe”
- Portuguese: “República do Zimbábue”
- Portuguese: “Zimbábue”
- Portuguese: “Zimbabwe”
- Portuguese: “Zimbaué”
- Pushto: “زمبابوي”
- Pushto: “زمبابوی”
- Pushto: “زيمبابوي”
- Pushto: “زيمبابوی”
- Pushto: “زيمبابوې”
- Pushto: “زیمبابوی”
- Pushto: “زیمبابوې”
- Pushto: “زېمبابوې”
- Quechua: “Simbabwi”
- Quechua: “Simpapwi”
- Quechua: “Zimbabue”
- Romanian: “Zimbabwe”
- Romansh: “Simbabwe”
- Rundi: “Zimbabwe”
- Russia Buriat: “Зимбабве”
- Russian: “Зимбабве”
- Russian: “Республика Зимбабве”
- Russian: “Южная Родезия”
- Rusyn: “Зімбабве”
- Sakizaya: “Zimbabwa”
- Samoan: “Simipapue”
- Samoan: “Zimbabwe”
- Samogitian: “Zėmbabvė”
- Sango: “Zimbäbwe”
- Sanskrit: “जिम्बाबवे”
- Santali: “ᱡᱤᱢᱵᱟᱵᱩᱭᱮ”
- Sardinian: “Zimbabwe”
- Saterfriesisch: “Simbabwe”
- Scots: “Zimbabwe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Sìombab”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siombabue”
- Serbian: “Zimbabve”
- Serbian: “Зимбабве”
- Serbian: “Република Зимбабве”
- Serbian: “Родезија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zimbabve”
- Shan: “မိူင်းၸိမ်ႇပႃႇပူၺ်ႇ”
- Shona: “Zimbabwe”
- Sicilian: “Zimbabbui”
- Silesian: “Zimbabwe”
- Sindhi: “جمھوريہ زمبابوي”
- Sindhi: “زمبابوي”
- Sinhala: “Zසිම්බාබ්වේ”
- Sinhala: “සිම්බාබ්වේ”
- Skolt Sami: “Zimbabwe tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Zimbabwe”
- Slovak: “Južná Rodézia”
- Slovak: “Zimbabwe-Rodézia”
- Slovak: “Zimbabwe”
- Slovak: “Zimbabwianska republika”
- Slovenian: “Južna Rodezija”
- Slovenian: “Republika Zimbabve”
- Slovenian: “Rodezija”
- Slovenian: “Zimbabve”
- Slovenian: “zw”
- Somali: “Simbaabwe”
- Somali: “Simbaabwi”
- South Azerbaijani: “زیمبابوه”
- South Ndebele: “Zimbabwe”
- Southern Sotho: “Zimbabwe”
- Spanish: “República de Zimbabue”
- Spanish: “Zimbabue”
- Spanish: “Zimbagüe”
- Spanish: “Zimbawe”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵣⵉⵎⴱⴰⴱⵡⵉ”
- Sundanese: “Zimbabwé”
- Swahili: “Zimbabwe”
- Swati: “IZimbabhwe”
- Swati: “IZimbabwe”
- Swedish: “Republiken Zimbabwe”
- Swedish: “Zimbabwe”
- Swiss German: “Simbabwe”
- Tagalog: “Republika ng Simbabwe”
- Tagalog: “Republika ng Zimbabwe”
- Tagalog: “Rhodesia”
- Tagalog: “Simbabuwe”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwe”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwean”
- Tagalog: “Simbabweana”
- Tagalog: “Simbabweano”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwena”
- Tagalog: “Simbabweno”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwes”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwesa”
- Tagalog: “Simbabweyana”
- Tagalog: “Simbabweyano”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwian”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwiana”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwiano”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwiyan”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwiyana”
- Tagalog: “Simbabwiyano”
- Tagalog: “Zimbabwe”
- Tagalog: “Zimbabwean”
- Tajik: “Зимбабве”
- Talysh: “Zimbabve”
- Tamil: “சிம்பாப்வே”
- Tamil: “ஜிம்பாப்வே”
- Tamil: “ஸிம்பாப்வே”
- Taroko: “Zimbabwa”
- Tatar: “Зимбабве”
- Telugu: “జింబాబ్వే”
- Thai: “ซิมบับเว”
- Thai: “ประเทศซิมบับเว”
- Thai: “ประเทศโรดีเซีย”
- Thai: “โรดีเซีย”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐซิมบับเว”
- Tibetan: “ཛིམ་བབ་ཝི།”
- Tibetan: “ཛིམ་བྷཱ་བེ།”
- Tigrinya: “ዚምባብዌ”
- Tigrinya: “ዚምቧቤ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Simipapuei”
- Tsonga: “Zimbabwe”
- Tswana: “Zimbabwe”
- Tulu: “ಜಿ೦ಬಾಬ್ವೆ”
- Tulu: “ಜಿಂಬಾಬ್ವೆ”
- Tumbuka: “Zimbabwe”
- Tunisian Arabic: “زيمبابوي”
- Turkish: “Zimbabi”
- Turkish: “Zimbabve”
- Turkmen: “Zimbabwe”
- Tyap: “A̱tak Rodesiya”
- Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Zi̱mbabwe”
- Tyap: “Rodesiya”
- Tyap: “Zi̱mbabwe”
- Udmurt: “Зимбабве”
- Uighur: “Zimbabuwi”
- Uighur: “Zimbabwé”
- Uighur: “زىمبابۇۋى”
- Uighur: “زىمبابۋې”
- Ukrainian: “Зімбабве”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Родезія”
- Ukrainian: “Республіка Зімбабве”
- Upper Sorbian: “Simbabwe”
- Urdu: “زمبابوے”
- Uzbek: “Zimbabve”
- Venda: “Zimbagwe”
- Venetian: “Zimbabue”
- Venetian: “Zinbàbue”
- Venetian: “Zinbabwe”
- Veps: “Zimbabve”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Zimbabwe”
- Vietnamese: “Dim-ba-bu-ê (Zimbabwe)”
- Vietnamese: “Dim-ba-bu-ê”
- Vietnamese: “Zimbabwe”
- Vlax Romani: “Zimbabwe”
- Volapük: “Simbabvän”
- Volapük: “Zimbabiyän”
- Võro: “Zimbabwe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zimbabwe”
- Welsh: “Simbabwe”
- Welsh: “Zimbabwe”
- Western Armenian: “Զիմպապուէ”
- Western Frisian: “Republyk fan Simbabwe”
- Western Frisian: “Simbabwe”
- Western Frisian: “Zimbabwe”
- Western Mari: “Зимбабве”
- Western Panjabi: “زمبابوے”
- Wolof: “Simbaabwee”
- Wolof: “Simbaawee”
- Wolof: “Simbabwe”
- Wu Chinese: “津巴布韋”
- Wu Chinese: “津巴布韦”
- Xhosa: “IZimbabwe”
- Yakut: “Зимбабве”
- Yakut: “Зимбабуэ”
- Yiddish: “זימבאַבווע”
- Yiddish: “זימבאַבװע”
- Yoruba: “Republic of Zimbabwe”
- Yoruba: “Sìmbábúè”
- Yoruba: “Simbabwe”
- Yoruba: “Ṣimibabe”
- Yoruba: “Zimbabwe”
- Yue Chinese: “津巴布韋”
- Zeeuws: “Zimbabwe”
- Zhuang: “Zimbabwe”
- Zulu: “IZimbabwe”
- “ma Sinpapuwe”
- “ZIM”
- “Zimbabhue”
- “ZWE”
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