Great Zimbabwe, a stone city built without mortar from the 11th century, gave the country its name.
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Zimbabwe
Republic of Zimbabwe
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
390.76Kkmยฒ of land
$1.46KGDP / person
HarareCapital
- ISO codes
- ZW ยท ZWE
- Density
- 38 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Chewa, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zimbabwean Sign Language
- Currencies
- Botswana pula (BWP), Chinese yuan (CNY), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP), Indian rupee (INR), Japanese yen (JPY), United States dollar (USD), South African rand (ZAR), Zimbabwean bonds (ZWB)
- Dial code
- +263
- Internet domain
- .zw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 18.9120ยฐ S, 29.9250ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Zimbabwean
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $21.44B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Zimbabwe stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
73rd
of 242 ยท 0.19% of world population
Land area
62nd
of 242 ยท 0.26% of world land
GDP per person
200th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
170th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Zimbabwe
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 14,645,468 people, the 73rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.19 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 390,757 kmยฒ, making it the 62nd largest country here - about 9.5 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 38 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Harare, at 17.82ยฐ S, 31.04ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,572,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Harare.
The currency is the Botswana pula (BWP, symbol P).
Has 15 official languages: Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan and Ndau (and 10 more).
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Harare
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Harare
Harare
17.8158ยฐ S, 31.0428ยฐ E
1.57M
2
Bulawayo
Bulawayo
20.1700ยฐ S, 28.5800ยฐ E
699.39K
3
Chitungwiza
Harare
18.0000ยฐ S, 31.1000ยฐ E
340.36K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Zimbabwe.