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Zimbabwe (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 00 00 S degrees minutes Lat: -19.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 029 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 29.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Home to Stone Age cultures 500,000 BCE; Khoisan and Niger-Kordofanian peoples arrived 3000 BCE-1000; Bantu-speaking peoples came 5th-10th centuries, driving San people into the desert; Zulu kingdom flourished 19th century; overseen by British South Africa Company 1889; official language is English, with Shona and Sindebele widely spoken.
Names:
Zimbabwe (preferred C ,V ,English-P ,U ,N ) ............ since 1980 Zimbabwe Rundi )Zimbabwe Indonesian )Zimbabwe Ganda (Ugandan language) )Zimbabwe Lingala )Zimbabwe Magyar (Hungarian) )Zimbabwe Danish )Zimbabwe Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Zimbabwe Finnish )Zimbabwe Swedish )Zimbabwe Polish )Zimbabwe Romanian )Zimbabwe Slovak )Zimbabwe Spanish-P ,U ,N )Zimbabwe Catalan )Zimbabwe Basque )Zimbabwe Breton )Zimbabwe Czech )Zimbabwe Dutch )Zimbabwe Afrikaans )Zimbabwe French-P ,U ,N )Zimbabwe Italian )Zimbabwe Estonian )Zimbabwe Greenlandic )Zimbabwe Norwegian (Bokmål) )Zimbabwe Kikuyu )Zimbabwe Luba-Katanga )Zimbabwe Malay (macrolanguage) )Zimbabwe North Ndebele )Zimbabwe Northern Sami )Zimbabwe Shona )Zimbabwe Swahili (generic) )Zimbabwe Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Republic of Zimbabwe (C ,V ,O ,English ,U ,N )République du Zimbabwe (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )República de Zimbabwe (C ,O ,Spanish ,U ,N )Simbawe (C ,O )Зимбабве (C ,O ,Serbian )Зимбабве Macedonian )Зимбабве Bulgarian )Зимбабве Russian-P ,U )Республика Зимбабве (C ,O ,Russian ,U )津巴布韦 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )津巴布韦共和国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )زمبابوي (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً زمبابوي (C ,O ,Arabic ,U )ZWE (C ,O ,ISO3L )ZW (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO716 (C ,O ,ISO3N )ZI (C ,O ,FIPS )Zimbabwean (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )זימבבואה (C ,U ,Hebrew )An tSiombáib (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Cimbabue (C ,U ,Galician )Colony of Rhodesia (C ,U )Colony of Southern Rhodesia (C ,U )Dim-ba-bu-ê (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Dim-ba-bu-ê (Zimbabwe) (C ,U ,Vietnamese )i-Zimbabwe (C ,U ,Zulu )Orílẹ́ède ṣimibabe (C ,U ,Yoruba )Republic of Rhodesia (C ,U )Simbaabuwe (C ,U ,Fulah )Simbaabwe (C ,U ,Somali )Simbabve (C ,U ,Icelandic )Simbabvi (C ,U ,Faroese )Simbabwe (C ,U ,Welsh )Simbabwe German )Simbabwe Romansh )Simipapuei (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )State of Zimbabwe (C ,U )Südrhodesien (C ,U ,German )Zembabwe (C ,U ,Akan )Zimbaboe (C ,U ,Malagasy )Zimbabue (C ,U ,Spanish )Zimbábue (C ,U ,Portuguese )Zimbabuwe (C ,U ,Bambara )Zimbabuwe Hausa )Zimbabvė (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Zimbabve (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Zimbabve Croatian )Zimbabve Bosnian )Zimbabve Latvian )Zimbabve Slovene )Zimbabve Albanian )Zimbabve Turkish )Zimbabvo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Żimbabwe (C ,U ,Maltese )Zimbäbwe (C ,U ,Sangho )Zimbabwe nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Zimbabwe/Rhodesia (C ,U )Zimbawe (C ,U ,Spanish )זימבאבווה (C ,U ,Hebrew )Զիմբաբվե (C ,U ,Armenian )Ζιμπάμπουε (C ,U ,Greek )짐바브웨 (C ,U ,Korean )ຊິມບັບເວ (C ,U ,Lao )ཛིམ་བབ་ཝེ (C ,U ,Dzongkha )ジンバブエ (C ,U ,Japanese )Зімбабве (C ,U ,Ukrainian )ហ្ស៊ីមបាបវ៉េ (C ,U ,Khmer )ஜிம்பாப்வே (C ,U ,Tamil )ዚምቧቤ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ዚምቧቤ Amharic )زیمبابوه (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )رودزیای جنوبی (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )जिम्बाब्वे (C ,U ,Hindi )ზიმბაბვე (C ,U ,Georgian )زيمبابوي (C ,U ,Arabic )南ローデシア (C ,U ,Japanese )ज़िम्बाब्वे (C ,U ,Hindi )സിംബാബ്വേ (C ,U ,Malayalam )జింబాబ్వే (C ,U ,Telugu )සිම්බාබ්වේ (C ,U ,Sinhala )ซิมบับเว (C ,U ,Thai )ཛིམ་བྷཱ་བེ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )زمبابوے (C ,U ,Urdu )जिम्बाबे (C ,U ,Nepali )झिम्बाब्वे (C ,U ,Marathi )জিম্বাবুয়ে (C ,U ,Bengali )ଜିମ୍ବାୱେ (C ,U ,Odia )ઝિમ્બાબ્વે (C ,U ,Gujarati )ジンバブエ共和国 (C ,U ,Japanese )Зімбабвэ (C ,U ,Belarusian )زیمبابوی (C ,U ,Kurdish )ಜಿಂಬಾಬ್ವೆ (C ,U ,Kannada )ဇင်ဘာဘွေ (C ,U ,Burmese )Rhodesia (H ,V )Rhodesian (H ,O )Rhodesië (H ,O )Rodesia (H ,O )Southern Rhodesia (H ,V ,English )Zimbabwe Rhodesia (H ,V ) ............ used 1979-1980
Hierarchical Position:
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ recognized by Britain in April 1980; declared independence in 1965
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
republic (C ) ............ proclaimed 1970
controlled region (H ) ............ British, from late 19th cen.
colony (H ) ............ British, 1923-1980
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Harare .................. (World, Africa, Zimbabwe, Harare province) [7001737]
historical connection .... Matapa ........................................ (World, Africa) [8698199]
historical connection .... Rozwi ........................................ (World, Africa) [6005045]
member of .... Commonwealth of Nations ................ (World) [7005615] ................ joined association in 1980
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1980
Sources and Contributors:
Colony of Southern Rhodesia.......... [VP ] ............................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 878675
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