Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (officially Republic of Zimbabwe) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Harare, and is home to roughly 16.6M people.
Its official languages are Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Chewa, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zimbabwean Sign Language; the currency in circulation is Botswana pula (P) and Chinese yuan (¥) and Euro (€) and British pound (£) and Indian rupee (₹) and Japanese yen (¥) and United States dollar ($) and South African rand (Rs) and Zimbabwean bonds ($); people from here are called Zimbabwean.
- »Great Zimbabwe was the capital of a large medieval kingdom, built in dry stone without mortar.
- »The country experienced one of the most extreme hyperinflations ever recorded.
Zimbabwe touches four neighbours: Botswana to the southwest, Mozambique to the east, South Africa to the south and Zambia to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Harare was called Salisbury until 1982. It sits on a high plateau at about 1,490 m, which gives it a mild climate despite being in the tropics.
390,670 km² (150,838 sq mi), 60th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Paraguay.
Population 16,634,373, 74th of 198 on file. That averages 43 per km² (110 per sq mi).
The Zimbabwe Bird, a soapstone carving found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, sits on a white triangle over the pan-African stripes.