Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in . For those looking to travel in , 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, .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Harare and Victoria Falls.

is the capital and largest city in Zimbabwe. has an excellent highland climate and well-planned garden suburbs that are very pleasant to walk around in.

is a town in the western portion of Zimbabwe, 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.

is a relaxed, elegant industrial city with wide tree-lined boulevards, in western Zimbabwe. Several World Heritage sites, including historic monuments from the precolonial era and national parks, are within an hour's drive from , making it a great tourist destination.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Matabeleland and Mashonaland.

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is a region in the southwest and west of Zimbabwe. It is inhabited by the Ndebele people, who settled here in the mid-1800s.

is a region in northeastern Zimbabwe. It is home to nearly half of the population of Zimbabwe. Most of the people are from the Shona tribe while the Zezuru and Korekore dialects are most common.

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is a region in Zimbabwe corresponding to Masvingo province and the southern part of Midlands province. The northern part is more industrial with much of the country's mineral wealth while the south has national parks and the Great Zimbabwe ruins.

The , also known as the Manica Highlands, is a mountain range on the border of Zimbabwe and . The extend north and south for about 300 kilometres through Zimbabwe's and Mozambique's Manica Province.

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Lake Kariba and the Lower Zambezi is a region in northern Zimbabwe. It includes the eastern part of Lake Kariba and the Zambezi shoreline east of the lake to the border with .

Zimbabwe

Latitude of center
-19° or 19° south
Longitude of center
29.9° or 29° 54′ east
Population
12,500,000
Area
390,580 km² (150,804 miles²)
Elevation
1,285 metres (4,216 feet)
Capital
Currency
Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
Phone code
.zw
Internet domain
263
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1640880787
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
878675
Wiki­data ID
Q954
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Zimbabwe” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Зимбабве
  • Afrikaans: ZIM
  • 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: Zimbaboue
  • 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: জিম্বাবুয়ে
  • 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: 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
  • Corsican: Zimbabwe
  • Crimean Tatar: Zimbabve
  • Croatian: Zimbabve
  • Czech: Zimbabwe
  • Dagbani: Zimbabwe
  • Danish: Zimbabwe
  • Dhivehi: ޒިމްބާބުވޭ
  • Dimli (individual language): Zimbabwe
  • Dotyali: जिम्बावे
  • Dutch: Republiek Zimbabwe
  • Dutch: Zimbabwe
  • Dutch: ZW
  • Dutch: ZWE
  • Dzongkha: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝེ་
  • Dzongkha: ཛིམ་བྷབ་ཝེ
  • Eastern Mari: Зимбабве
  • Egyptian Arabic: زيمبابوى
  • Esperanto: Respubliko Zimbabvo
  • Esperanto: Zimbabvo
  • Esperanto: ZW
  • 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 Zimbabwe
  • French: République du Zimbabwé
  • French: Zimbabwe
  • French: Zimbabwé
  • French: ZW
  • 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: Zimbabwe
  • German: Südrhodesien” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Zimbabwe
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Rhodesia
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Southern Rhodesia
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: ZIM
  • 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: जिम्बाब्वे
  • 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
  • Irish: An tSiombáib
  • Italian: Rhodesia
  • Italian: Zimbabwe
  • Italian: ZWE
  • 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: ZIM
  • Kara-Kalpak: Zimbabve Respublikası
  • Kara-Kalpak: Zimbabve
  • Kara-Kalpak: ZWE
  • Kara-Kalpak: Зимбабве Республикасы
  • Kara-Kalpak: Зимбабве
  • Kashmiri: زِمبابوے
  • Kashmiri: زِمبابے
  • Kashubian: Zimbabwe
  • Kazakh: Зимбабве
  • Khmer: ប្រទេសហ្ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ
  • Khmer: ស៊ីមបាវេ
  • Khmer: ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ
  • 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
  • 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: സിംബാബ്‌വെ
  • 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
  • Manx: ZIM
  • Manx: Zimbabwe
  • Manx: ZW
  • Manx: ZWE
  • Maori: Timuwawe
  • Marathi: झिंबाब्वे
  • Marathi: झिम्बाब्वे
  • Mazanderani: زیمبابوه
  • Min Dong Chinese: Zimbabwe
  • Min Nan Chinese: Zimbabwe
  • Minangkabau: Zimbabwe
  • Mingrelian: ზიმბაბვე
  • Moksha: Зимбабвэ
  • Mongolian: Зимбабве
  • Moroccan Arabic: زيمبابوي
  • Mossi: ’’Zimbabwe’’
  • Mossi: ‘Zimbabwe’
  • Nauru: Zimbabwe
  • Navajo: Hooghan Tsé Bee Ádaalyaaí Bikéyah
  • Navajo: Tsé Bee Bighan Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
  • Nepali: जिम्बाबवे
  • 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
  • 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: Republica do Zimbabue
  • Portuguese: República do Zimbábue
  • Portuguese: Zimbabué
  • 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: Zimbabwe
  • Serbian: Зимбабве
  • Serbian: Република Зимбабве
  • Serbian: Родезија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Zimbabve
  • Shan: မိူင်းၸိမ်ႇပႃႇပူၺ်ႇ
  • Shona: Zimbabwe
  • Sicilian: Zimbabbui
  • Silesian: Zimbabwe
  • Sindhi: جمھوريہ زمبابوي
  • Sindhi: زمبابوي
  • Sinhala: Zimbabwe
  • 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: ZIM
  • Slovenian: Zimbabve
  • Slovenian: zw
  • Somali: Simbaabwe
  • Somali: Simbaabwi
  • South Azerbaijani: زیمبابوه
  • South Ndebele: Zimbabwe
  • Southern Sotho: Zimbabwe
  • Spanish: Republica de Zimbabue
  • Spanish: República de Zimbabue
  • Spanish: Zimbabue
  • Spanish: Zimbabwe
  • Spanish: Zimbagüe
  • Spanish: Zimbawe
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵣⵉⵎⴱⴰⴱⵡⵉ
  • Sundanese: Zimbabwe
  • 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: Zimbabwe
  • 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
  • Tosk Albanian: Simbabwe
  • Tsonga: Zimbabwe
  • Tswana: Zimbabwe
  • Tulu: ಜಿ೦ಬಾಬ್ವೆ
  • Tulu: ಜಿಂಬಾಬ್ವೆ
  • Tumbuka: Zimbabwe
  • Tunisian Arabic: زيمبابوي
  • Turkish: Zimbabi
  • Turkish: Zimbabve
  • Turkish: Zimbabwe
  • 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: Zimbabwe
  • Urdu: زمبابوے
  • Uzbek: Zimbabve
  • Venda: Zimbabwe
  • Venda: Zimbagwe
  • Venetian: Zimbabue
  • Venetian: Zimbabwe
  • Venetian: Zinbabue
  • Venetian: Zinbàbue
  • Venetian: Zinbabwe
  • Veps: Zimbabve
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Zimbabwe
  • 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: Zimbabwe
  • Wu Chinese: 津巴布韋
  • Wu Chinese: 津巴布韦
  • Xhosa: IZimbabwe
  • Yakut: Зимбабве
  • Yakut: Зимбабуэ
  • Yiddish: זימבאבווע
  • Yiddish: זימבאבװע
  • 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
  • Zulu: IZimbabwe
  • ma Sinpapuwe
  • Zėmbabvė
  • ZIM
  • Zimbabhue
  • Zimbabwe
  • ZW
  • ZWE
  • जिम्बाब्वे

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