List of cities and towns in Zimbabwe
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This is a list of cities
City
A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...

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Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

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Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

. See also: Place names in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe
Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe began renaming cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate symbols of British colonialism and white minority rule, starting in 1982, on the second anniversary of independence...

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Largest Cities

Cities in Zimbabwe
Rank City Population Province Image
Census 1982 Census 1992 Census 2002 Est. 2007
1. Harare
Harare
Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

 
656.011 1.189.103 1.444.534 1.607.022 Harare
Harare
Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

 
2. Bulawayo
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

 
413.814 621.742 676.787 713.340 Bulawayo
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

 
3. Chitungwiza
Chitungwiza
Chitungwiza — known colloquially as Chi Town — is a high-density dormitory town in Zimbabwe. The town is approximately 30 kilometres south of the capital, Harare. It was formed in 1978 from three townships: Seke, Zengeza, and St Marys.- Background :...

 
172.556 274.912 321.782 352.204 Harare
Harare
Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

 
4. Mutare
Mutare
Mutare is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.-History:...

 
69.621 131.367 170.106 193.629 Manicaland
Manicaland
Manicaland is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of and a population of approximately 1.6 million . Mutare is the capital of the province. -Background:...

 
5. Gweru
Gweru
Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...

 
78.918 128.037 141.260 148.935 Midlands 
6. Kwekwe
Kwekwe
Kwekwe or Kwe Kwe , formerly spelt Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in the centre of the country —roughly equidistant from Harare to the northeast and Bulawayo to the southwest. Its population stood at 47,607 in 1982, 75,425 in 1992 and the preliminary result of the 2002...

 
47.607 75.425 93.072 103.210 Midlands 
7. Kadoma
Kadoma, Zimbabwe
Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982....

 
44.613 67.750 76.173 81.008 Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.2 million . Chinhoyi is the capital of the province.Mashonaland West is divided into 6 districts:* Chegutu* Hurungwe* Kadoma* Kariba...

 
8. Masvingo
Masvingo
Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...

30.523 51.743 69.993 80.630 Masvingo
Masvingo
Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...

 
9. Chinhoyi
Chinhoyi
Chinhoyi is a large provincial town and is the capital of Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Sinoia was established in 1906 as a group settlement scheme by a wealthy Italian called Lieutenant Margherito Guidotti who encouraged 10 Italian families to settle there.- Overview :Chinhoyi is located...

 
24.322 43.054 56.794 65.109 Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.2 million . Chinhoyi is the capital of the province.Mashonaland West is divided into 6 districts:* Chegutu* Hurungwe* Kadoma* Kariba...

 
10. Marondera
Marondera
Marondera is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare; population 39,384...

 
19.971 39.384 52.283 60.291 Mashonaland East
Mashonaland East
Mashonaland East is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32,230 km² and a population of approximately 1.1 million . Marondera is the capital of the province.-Districts:Mashonaland East is divided into eight districts:* Chikomba* Goromonzi...

 

Manicaland

  • Birchenough Bridge
    Birchenough Bridge
    Birchenough Bridge is the name for both a bridge across the Save River and a village next to the bridge. Birchenough Bridge is located 62 km from Chipinge in the Manicaland province of Zimbabwe linking Mutare with Masvingo. The bridge was funded and planned by the Beit Trust, a foundation...

  • Buhera
    Buhera
    Buhera is a district in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe about 82 km south east of Chivhu. It serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the Sabi communal lands....

  • Cashel
    Cashel, Zimbabwe
    Cashel is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located near the Mozambique border just north of the Chimanimani mountains. Forestry, bananas, wheat and other cash crops are grown in the area. It was originally called Penkridge but was changed to Cashel in 1957...

  • Tizvione
    Tizvione
    Tizvione is a village in Manicaland province in Zimbabwe....

  • Chipinge
    Chipinge
    Chipinge is a town in southeastern Zimbabwe in the province of Manicaland near the Mozambique border. The town lies in a valley in the southern Eastern Highlands. One of Zimbabwe's most famous landmarks, the Birchenough Bridge is located on the Sabi River 62 km from Chipinge...

  • Hauna
    Hauna
    Hauna is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located in the Honde Valley communal land about 55 km north of Mutare.It is the Growth Point Centre for Mutasa District in Manicaland. Hauna growth point is in Samanga B ward of Mutasa District and has a population of about 8,000. ...

  • Nyazura
    Nyazura
    Nyazura is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located 72 km north west of Mutare on the main road and railway linking Harare and Mutare. The phosphate from Dorowa are handled by the railways here....

  • Rusape
    Rusape
    Rusape is a town in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe with a population of around 20,000 , situated on the Harare-Mutare main road, approximately 170 km south east of Harare and 93 km north west of Mutare. Rusape is a large, sprawling town that has not quite reached city status...


Mashonaland Central

  • Glendale, Zimbabwe
    Glendale, Zimbabwe
    Glendale is a village in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. The village of Glendale in Zimbabwe was named after a town of the same name in Northumberland, England. Glendale is located in the Mazowe valley of Zimbabwe, about 85 km north east of Harare...

  • Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe
    Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe
    Mount Darwin or Karanda is a town in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. It is named after the biologist Charles Darwin. It is located 156 kilometres north of Harare.- History :...

  • Mvurwi
    Mvurwi
    Mvurwi is a town in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe.Some of Mvurwi's schools include Holy Rosary Primary and Secondary School, Mvurwi Primary and HighSchool and Umvukwes Primary School which is one of the town's most elite learning facilities and...

  • Bindura
    Bindura
    Bindura is a town in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe Valley about 88 km north-east of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 18,243. This rose to 21,167 in the 1992 census. It is the administrative capital of the...


Mashonaland East

  • Arcturus
    Arcturus, Zimbabwe
    Arcturus is a village in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located about 32 km east of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,300 and the surrounding rural area has a population of approximately 20,000. The village grew up around the...

  • Beatrice
    Beatrice, Zimbabwe
    Beatrice is a village in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located about 54 km south-west of Harare on the main Harare-Masvingo next to the Umfului River. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 1,300. The village was named after the Beatrice gold...

  • Bromley
    Bromley, Zimbabwe
    Bromley is a village in Mashonaland East province in Zimbabwe. It is located on the road between Harare and Marondera....

  • Chitungwiza
    Chitungwiza
    Chitungwiza — known colloquially as Chi Town — is a high-density dormitory town in Zimbabwe. The town is approximately 30 kilometres south of the capital, Harare. It was formed in 1978 from three townships: Seke, Zengeza, and St Marys.- Background :...

  • Marondera
    Marondera
    Marondera is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare; population 39,384...

  • Ruwa
    Ruwa
    Ruwa is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, situated 22 km south-east of Harare on the main Harare-Mutare highway and railway line. It serves as a small administrative and trading centre for the surrounding mixed farming area...

  • Kotwa
    Kotwa
    Kotwa is a census town in Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-Demographics: India census, Kotwa had a population of 12,411. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kotwa has an average literacy rate of 39%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy...

  • Chivhu
    Chivhu
    Chivhu is a small town in Zimbabwe, with an estimated population of 10,000 in 2007. It is located south of Harare on the main road south to Masvingo and South Africa.-History:...

  • Nharira
  • Goromonzi
    Goromonzi
    Goromonzi is a rural community in Zimbabwe, southeast of the country's capital city of Harare. It covers an area of and has a population of 178,000. The people who live in the region are principally from the Shona tribe. The village serves as a trading centre for commercial, communal and...

  • Harare
    Harare
    Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

     (Metropolitan Province)
  • Macheke
    Macheke
    Macheke is a town in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 105 km south-east of Harare on the main Harare-Mutare road. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 1,888. It was named after the Macheke River and means "you have divided"...

  • Mahusekwa
  • Suswe
  • Wedza
    Wedza
    Wedza is a district in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located about south of Marondera, and south of Harare. The Mbire people of the Soko Clan were the early inhabitants who mined iron in the Hwedza hills which means "a place of wealth". A village was established in 1910...

  • Mutoko
    Mutoko
    Mutoko is a small town in Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. It was established as an administrative station in 1911. It lies 143 km from Harare. It is named after the local Chief Mutoko....

  • Murewa
    Murewa
    Murewa, also known as Murehwa or Mrewa is a village in Zimbabwe 75 kilometers northeast from the capital of Harare, at the road to Tete . It is situated almost 1400 m above sea level. In 2002, the number of inhabitants was 8398. Public and private buildings are simple. "Growthpoint" and village...

  • Epworth
    Epworth
    Epworth is a small town and civil parish in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, England. As the birthplace of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, it has given its name to many institutions associated with Methodism. Their father, Samuel Wesley, was the rector from 1695 to 1735.- Description...

  • Juru
    Juru
    Juru is a town in Penang, Malaysia. It situated in Seberang Prai Tengah. The Juru Highway Auto-City and 1 Stop Auto & Food is located here...

  • Sadza
    Sadza
    Sadza in Shona, Isitshwala in isiNdebele, pap in South Africa or nsima in the Chichewa language of Malawi, is a cooked corn meal that is the staple food in Zimbabwe and other parts of southern and eastern Africa. This food is cooked widely in other countries of the region.Sadza in appearance is a...

  • Makosa
  • Makaha
  • Bondamakara
  • Headlands
  • Nyamapanda
    Nyamapanda
    Nyamapanda is a town in the Mashonaland East province of northern Zimbabwe. Its altitude is ....


Mashonaland West

  • Alaska
    Alaska, Zimbabwe
    Alaska is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 15 km west of Chinhoyi. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,854. The village grew up around the old Alaska Mine which started mining copper in 1959...

  • Banket
    Banket, Zimbabwe
    Banket is a town in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 95 km north-west of Harare on the main Harare-Chinhoyi road. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 5,698...

  • Battlefields
    Battlefields
    Battlefields is a settlement in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Bumi Hills
    Bumi Hills
    Bumi Hills is the name of a group of hills and luxury hotel in Mashonaland West province Zimbabwe. The hotel is situated on hilly ground overlooking the southern shore of Lake Kariba...

  • Cape Haig
  • Chakari
  • Charara
    Charara
    Charara is a town in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Chegutu
    Chegutu
    Chegutu is a town in the Mashonaland West province, northern Zimbabwe and is 110km southwest of Harare on the main Harare-Bulawayo road . According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 30,191...

  • Chinhoyi
    Chinhoyi
    Chinhoyi is a large provincial town and is the capital of Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Sinoia was established in 1906 as a group settlement scheme by a wealthy Italian called Lieutenant Margherito Guidotti who encouraged 10 Italian families to settle there.- Overview :Chinhoyi is located...

     (Provincial Capital)
  • Chirundu
    Chirundu, Zimbabwe
    Chirundu is a village and border post in Zimbabwe on the border with Zambia, in Mashonaland West province. It is located on the banks of the Zambezi river, and as a result it lies in the hot Zambezi Valley. It is the site of the Chirundu Bridges, two of only five road or rail bridges across the...

  • Darwendale
    Darwendale
    Darwendale is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 62 km west of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,264. The village grew from O.C. Zimmerman's farm which was pegged out in the 1890s to grow tobacco....

  • Doma
    Doma
    - Places :* Domah, a mandal in Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India* Doma, Nigeria, a local government are in Nasarawa State, Nigeria* Duma , a Palestinian town in the West Bank- Other uses :...

  • Eiffel Flats
    Eiffel Flats
    Eiffel Flats is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 7 km east of Kadoma. The village began in 1905 as a residential township for the Cam and Motor gold mines. The two original mines are now closed but gold is still mined in the area and there is a...

  • Eldorado
    Eldorado, Zimbabwe
    Eldorado, Zimbabwe is a settlement in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Feock
    Feock, Zimbabwe
    Feock is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 8 km north of Mutorashanga. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 2,866. The village started as a residential and commercial township for the Feock chromite mine....

  • Gadzema
    Gadzema
    Gadzema is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 110 km south-west of Harare on the main Harare-Bulawayo railway line. The village grew up around the a railway station that was built on the line. It was named after a nearby hill, Ganidzima Hill, which...

  • Golden Valley
    Golden Valley, Zimbabwe
    Golden Valley, Zimbabwe is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Kadoma
    Kadoma, Zimbabwe
    Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982....

  • Kariba
    Kariba
    Kariba is a town in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, located close to the Kariba Dam at the northwestern end of Lake Kariba, near the Zambian border. According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 20,736....

  • Karoi
    Karoi
    Karoi is both a town and a district in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe. Karoi town is located approximately 200 km North West of Harare along the main road from Harare to Kariba and Chirundu. Karoi town is situated in a farming area. The population of Karoi town in the 1992 census was 14,763...

  • Kildonan
    Kildonan, Zimbabwe
    Kildonan, Zimbabwe is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Lion's Den
  • Madadzi
    Madadzi
    Madadzi is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 13 km southeast of Karoi in a tobacco-growing area....

  • Magunje
    Magunje
    Magunje is the largest village and principal growth point in Hurungwe Communal Land, Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe. Magunje is located approximately 35 km west-north-west of Karoi town. Magunje has two secondary schools. They are Magunje Government High School, and Charles Clack Mission,...

  • Makuti
    Makuti
    Makuti is a small village in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe. It lies on the main road between Harare and Chirundu borderpost. All traffic for Kariba turns off the Harare-Chirundu road at Makuti. The village is surrounded by wildlife/safari areas, and very few people live there. Makuti has a...

  • Makwiro
    Makwiro
    Makwiro is a settlement in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Mhangura
    Mhangura
    Mhangura is a small town in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe. The name was probably derived from the Shona word mhangura meaning "red metal" in reference to copper. According to the 1992 census Mhangura had a population of 11,175...

  • Mubayira
    Mubayira
    Mubayira is a small village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. It is southwest of the capitol of Harare....

  • Munyati
    Munyati
    Munyati is a small town in Midlands province in Zimbabwe. It is located about 29km north of Kwekwe on the main Harare-Bulawayo road which was about 5km away from the village center. In 1938 a coal-fired power station was built in the area and the village was established to house the personnel...

  • Muriel
    Muriel, Zimbabwe
    Muriel, Zimbabwe is a settlement in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Murombedzi
    Murombedzi
    Murombedzi is a business centre in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Murombedzi is about 100km west of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city....

  • Mutorashanga
    Mutorashanga
    thumb|right|350px|Entrance of an [[adit]] of a [[chromite]] mine, MutorashangaMutorashanga is a small ferrochrome mining town in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Situated on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke mountain range, about 100 kilometers north of the capital, Harare...

  • Mwami
    Mwami, Zimbabwe
    Mwami is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.-External links:*...

  • Norton
    Norton, Zimbabwe
    Norton is a town in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 40 km west of Harare on the main road and railway line connecting Harare and Bulawayo. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 12,360. This rose to 20, 405 in the 1992 census, and...

  • Orlando Heights
  • Raffingora
    Raffingora
    Raffingora is a small town in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 43 km west of Chinhoyi in one of Zimbabwe's leading tobacco growing districts....

  • Sanyati
    Sanyati
    Sanyati is a former native purchase area in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. Sanyati is a communal area widely known in Zimbabwe for cotton farming. It is located about 92 km north-west of Kadoma on the Sanyati River...

  • Selous
    Selous, Zimbabwe
    Selous is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. It lies not far from Harare on the main Harare to Bulawayo road.It is named after the British explorer and hunter Frederick Selous....

  • Shackleton
    Shackleton, Zimbabwe
    Shackleton, Zimbabwe is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe....

  • Tashinga
    Tashinga
    Tashinga is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is an extension of the Tashinga camp in the Matusadona National Park and can be accessed only by water....

  • Tengwe
    Tengwe
    Tengwe is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe situated about 70 km north-west of Chinhoyi. Tobacco is mainly produced in the area....

  • Trelawney
  • Umsweswe
    Umsweswe
    Umsweswe is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 16 km south-west of Kadoma....

  • Unsworth
  • Vanad
    Vanad
    Vanad is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 12 km north of Mutorashanga in the Mvurwi Range. The village started as a residential settlement for the Vanad chromite mine. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 2,565...

  • Venice
    Venice, Zimbabwe
    Venice is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 30 km south-east of Kadoma. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,306. The village grew up as a residential and commercial centre for the Venice gold mine....

  • Vuti
    Vuti
    Vuti is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 60 km north-west of Karoi and 10 km east of the Charara Safari Area....

  • Zave
    Zave
    Zave is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 7 km north of Lion's Den and is the terminus of a railway branch line....


Masvingo

  • Bikita
    Bikita
    Bikita is a district in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about 80 km east of Masvingo. Its name probably is derived from the Shona word Dikita which means antbear, which describes the shape of a nearby hill. The district was previously known as Denga which means up in the clouds and...

  • Bubye River
    Bubye River
    The Bubye River is a tributary of the Limpopo River in Beitbridge District and Gwanda District, Zimbabwe. There are no major dams on the river, although two sites have been identified.- References :...

  • Buffalo Range
  • Chatsworth
    Chatsworth, Zimbabwe
    Chatsworth is a small village in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about 58 km north of Masvingo on the Masvingo-Gweru railway line. The settlement started in 1911 as a railway station.-Name:...

  • Chiredzi
    Chiredzi
    Chiredzi is a small town in Masvingo province in south-east Zimbabwe. Together with its sister town of Triangle, it is the major center of sugar production in the country.-Background:...

  • Chivi
  • Felixburg
    Felixburg
    Felixburg is a village in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about north of Masvingo on the road that connects Masvingo to Chivhu. It was named after Felix Posselt who visited the area in 1888 and later settled at Felixsburg....

  • Gaths Mine
    Gaths Mine
    Gaths Mine is a village adjacent to Mashava in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 40 km from Masvingo. The village once served as a residential area for a number of asbestos mines, Temeraire, Gaths and King mines, however only King mine is functioning at the moment. Population figures...

  • Glenclova
  • Glenlivet
  • Gutu
    Guţu
    Guţu is a Romanian surname:* Ana Guţu* Ion Guţu* Lidia Guţu* Octavian Guţu...

  • Gurajena
    Gurajena
    Gurajena is a village in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about 60 km north east of Masvingo and can be reached by following Zimuto Road north and then branching off at Maraire Growth Point to go due north east and crossing the Munyambe River, which is the border between Gutu...

  • Gwengwerere Growth Point, Zimbabwe
  • Hippo Valley
  • Mabalauta
  • Maranda
    Maranda, Zimbabwe
    Maranda, locally known as "No. 1", is a small business center on the northern edge of Mwenezi . It is the home town of Dr. Love, Paul Matavire the former popular musician and Nikita Mangena, ZIPRA military leader during the Second Chimurenga war. It is a center of trade in the district, with people...

  • Mashava
    Mashava
    Mashava is a mining village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 40 km from Masvingo. Asbestos was and still is being mined in this small Zimbabwean town...

  • Masvingo
    Masvingo
    Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...

    (Provincial Capital)
  • Mbizi
    Mbizi
    Mbizi is a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. It is the junction of the Gweru-Maputo and lowveld railway lines, operated by National Railways of Zimbabwe....

  • Mupandawana
  • Mwenezi
  • Ndanga
    Ndanga
    Ndanga is a sub-district in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 60 km south-east of Masvingo. The area is easily accessible from the city of Masvingo, as it is lies roughly midway on a highway linking the province's two main cities of Masvingo and Chiredzi...

  • Nemanwa
  • Ngomahuru
  • Ngundu
    Ngundu
    Ngundu is a village in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe.Pre 1950 Ngundu Halt was a stopping point for the Rhodesia Railways Road Motor Service, or RMS. There was a small roof topped structure with a secure door where the mailbag was dropped for Triangle Estates and I believe for other residents in the...

  • Renco
    Renco
    Renco is a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 70 km from Masvingo. The village grew up around the Renco gold mine. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,817....

  • Zimuto Siding
    Zimuto Siding
    Zimuto Siding pronounced correctly as ZeeMooToe Siding, is named in the ChiKaranga language spoken locally after Chief Zimuto in whose area it is located. Zi is a word prefix denoting large size, and Muto is a noun meaning soup. So literally Zimuto means a large amount of soup...

  • Rutenga
    Rutenga
    Rutenga is a growth point in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe. It straddles the A4 highway between Beitbridge and Masvingo. It is the defacto capital of Mwenezi .- Background :...

  • Sango
    Sango, Zimbabwe
    Sango is a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe on the Mozambique border. The village supports the border post lying at the southern end of the Gonarezhou National Park....

  • Soti-Source
  • Triangle
    Triangle, Zimbabwe
    Triangle is a small town in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 125 km south-east from Masvingo, between Ngundu Growth Point and Chiredzi...

  • Tswiza
    Tswiza
    Tswiza is a village in the province of Masvingo, Zimbabwe. It is located about 25 km north of Sango in the Gonarezhou National Park on the railway line that links Gweru to Maputo in Mozambique....

  • Zaka
    Zaka
    Zaka is a district in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 86 km southeast from Masvingo in the Ndanga communal land. The village was established in 1923 and lies in a very low-lying area hence the Shona derived name kwo-ka-zaka which means to where it is going down.- Background :Zaka...

  • Musekiwa

Matabeleland North

  • Bembezi
    Bembezi
    Bembezi is a small settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 43 km north-east of Bulawayo. The Battle of Bembezi took place nearby in 1893....

  • Binga
    Binga
    Binga District, now Binga North District and Binga South District, lies in the hot and arid Zambezi Encampment, the region that was once the territory of the tsetse fly.-Boundaries:Binga District is an area of land bounded by a line drawn from;...

  • Bulawayo
    Bulawayo
    Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

     (Metropolitan Province)
  • Dagamela
    Dagamela
    Dagamela is a small settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 140 km north-west of Gweru in the Nkayi District close to the Shangani River....

  • Deka Drum
  • Dete
    Dete
    Dete is a small railway re-crewing depot and village on the Bulawayo-Hwange-Victoria Falls railway line in Zimbabwe, approximately north of Bulawayo and south of Hwange, lying within the Hwange National Park.-Features:...

  • Eastnor
    Eastnor (Zimbabwe)
    Eastnor is a village in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 25 km north of Bulawayo in a commercial farming area....

  • Hwange
    Hwange
    Hwange is a town in western Zimbabwe, in the province of Matabeleland North. It is named after the chieftain of Zwange, who is now called Chief Hwange. The town was known as Wankie until 1982. According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 42,581...

  • Inyati
    Inyati
    Inyati is a village in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 60 km north-east of Bulawayo in the Inyati communal land. The village grew up around the Inyati mission, which established in 1859 by on land given to Robert Moffat and William Sykes of the London Missionary Society by...

  • Kamativi
    Kamativi
    Kamativi is a small mining town in Matabeleland North province, Zimbabwe. Kamativi is also the name of a tin mine located at the town. The town exists because of the mine....

  • Kariyangwe
    Kariyangwe
    Kariyangwe is a settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 60 km south of Binga. The settlement grew up around the Kariyangwe Mission, the first to be set up by the Spanish missionaries that arrived in the country in 1949. The people are Matonga...

  • Kazungula
    Kazungula, Zimbabwe
    Kazungula is a small border post settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe close to Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. Just to the west is the Botswana border village of Kazungula, from where there is a ferry service for vehicles across the Zambezi River to the town in Zambia also called...

  • Kenmaur
  • Lonely Mine
    Lonely Mine
    Lonely Mine is a village in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 84 km north-east of Bulawayo, just north of Inyati. It was established in 1906 when gold was discovered in the area. Gold, nickel and tungsten are still mined in the area today....

  • Lupane
    Lupane
    Lupane can refer to :*Lupane District in Zimbabwe*Lupane triterpenes...

     (Provincial Capital)
  • Lusulu
  • Matetsi
    Matetsi
    Matetsi is a village in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 55 km west of Hwange. The village started as a railway siding and took its name from the nearby Matetsi River. Most of the surrounding land is under forest and the Matetsi Safari Area....

  • Mlibizi
    Mlibizi
    Mlibizi is a village on the southern shore of Lake Kariba. Mlibizi is situated in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. Mlibizi is a popular fishing resort and is the terminal of the Kariba Ferries car and passenger ferry. Kariba Ferries is a company that operates car and passenger ferries from...

  • Msuna
  • Nkayi
    Nkayi, Zimbabwe
    Nkayi is a district in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 100 km west of Kwekwe and 168 km north-east of Bulawayo in Nkayi communal land. It is believed that its name originates from the Tonga word "Uyinkayi" meaning "where are you going"...

  • Ntabazinduna
  • Nyamandhlovu
    Nyamandhlovu
    Nyamandhlovu is a village in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. Nyamandhlovu means "meat of the elephant" in the local language of Ndebele....

  • Pandamatenga
  • Queen's Mine
    Queen's Mine
    Queen's Mine is a village in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 55 km north-east of Bulawayo along the Bulawayo-Eastnor road. The village grew up around the now closed Queen's Mine. The gold mine was pegged on the site of ancient diggings in 1893. It derived its name from the...

  • Shangani
    Shangani
    Shangani may refer to:*Shangani Patrol - also known as Wilson's Last Stand*Shangani River, Zimbabwe*Shangani Tribe in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa*Shangani, Stone Town, a ward of Zanzibar City in Stone Town...

  • Siabuwa
  • Tsholotsho
    Tsholotsho
    - Introduction :Tsholotsho is a business center in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 65km north-west of Nyamandhlovu,and 98km north-west of Bulawayo as the bird flies, in the Tjolotjo communal land...

  • Tshotsholo
    Tshotsholo
    Tshotsholo is a district in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It is located about 115km northwest of Bulawayo. Its neighboring villages are Bulilimamangwe to the southwest, Bubi-Umguza to the northeast, Hwange to the west,Nyamandlovu to the east, and Lupane to the north....

  • Turk Mine
    Turk Mine
    Turk Mine is a village in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It is located about 56 km north-east of Bulawayo. The village grew up around a gold mine of the same name and serves as an administrative centre for the surrounding mining and ranching area.The Streak family, including...

  • Victoria Falls
    Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
    Victoria Falls is a town in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of the Victoria Falls themselves...


Matabeleland South

  • Antelope Mine
    Antelope Mine
    Antelope Mine is a village in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 114 km south of Bulawayo and 14 km south of Kezi. The village grew up around the old Antelope Mine which started mining gold in 1913 but closed in 1919....

  • Beitbridge
    Beitbridge
    Beitbridge or Mzingwane is a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. The name also refers to the border post and bridge spanning the Limpopo River, which forms the political border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.-Background:...

  • Blanket
  • Colleen Bawn
    Colleen Bawn
    For the Dion Boucicault play, please see The Colleen BawnColleen Bawn is a village in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 153 km south-east of Bulawayo on the main Bulawayo-Beitbridge road...

  • Esimbomvu
  • Esigodini
    Esigodini
    Esigodini is a village in Zimbabwe in Matabeleland South province. It is situated 43 km from Bulawayo by road and 47 km by rail on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge line. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 1,492. Esigodini is the administrative centre for Umzingwane...

  • Figtree
    Figtree
    Figtree is a village in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 37 km south-west of Bulawayo on the main Bulawayo-Plumtree road. The village is named after a wild fig tree which in the 19th century those wishing to enter the Matabele Kingdom had to wait by this tree for...

  • Filabusi
    Filabusi
    Filabusi is a district in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe. It is the district capital of Insiza and service centre for the surrounding mining and farming areas.Mining in the Filabusi area is now mainly small scale gold mining...

  • Fort Rixon
    Fort Rixon
    Fort Rixon is a village and farming centre in Matabeleland in the Republic of Zimbabwe, located some north-east of Bulawayo. It was founded as a military outpost in 1896 during the rebellion of the Matabele nation against British colonial rule of Rhodesia....

  • Fort Usher
  • Gwanda
    Gwanda
    Gwanda is the capital of the province of Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe. It is located on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge road and railway. Gwanda was founded in 1900. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 4,874...

     (Provincial Capital)
  • Kame
  • Kezi
    Kezi
    Kezi is a village in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe....

  • Mangwe
    Mangwe
    In the mythology of the Ila people of Zambia, Mangwe is a water spirit known as 'the flooder'....

  • Maphisa
  • Marula
    Marula, Zimbabwe
    Marula is a small village and railway station on the Bulawayo-Plumtree railway lineCoordinates:...

  • Mazunga
    Mazunga
    Mazunga refers to a term that natives of Uganda sometimes use to describe outside Caucasian visitors. When Europeans first arrived, and the Africans noticed that the white people didn’t work so much as walk around and tell other people to work...

  • Mbalabala
    Mbalabala
    Mbalabala is a village on the main Beitbridge-Bulawayo road in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Situated approximately 41 miles south-east of the city of Bulawayo. The name is derived from the Ndebele name for the greater kudu...

  • Mphoengs
  • Ngwesi
  • Nsiza
  • Plumtree
    Plumtree, Zimbabwe
    Plumtree, Zimbabwe is a town in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe, close to the border to Botswana. It is the local administrative centre. It sits at an altitude of 1280 metres on the watershed between the Limpopo river and the Nata river that drains into Okavango to the north. The annual rainfall is...

  • Towla
    Towla
    Towla is a village in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 90 km north of Beitbridge and presently serves as the Headquarters of the Bubye Valley Conservancy, believed to be the largest private wildlife reserve in the world....

  • Tuli
  • Vubachikwe
  • West Nicholson
    West Nicholson
    West Nicholson or Tshabezi is a village in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about halfway between Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, and the border town to South Africa, Beitbridge, along the main road and rail link to South Africa.According to the 1982 Population...


Midlands

  • Bannockburn
  • Buchwa
  • Chirumanzu
  • Chivhu
    Chivhu
    Chivhu is a small town in Zimbabwe, with an estimated population of 10,000 in 2007. It is located south of Harare on the main road south to Masvingo and South Africa.-History:...

  • Copper Queen
  • Empress Mine
  • Featherstone
  • Gokwe
  • Guinea Fowl
  • Gweru
    Gweru
    Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...

     (Provincial Capital)
  • Hunters Road
  • Ingezi
  • Insukamini
  • Kwekwe
    Kwekwe
    Kwekwe or Kwe Kwe , formerly spelt Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in the centre of the country —roughly equidistant from Harare to the northeast and Bulawayo to the southwest. Its population stood at 47,607 in 1982, 75,425 in 1992 and the preliminary result of the 2002...

  • Lalapanzi
    Lalapanzi
    Lalapanzi is a village in Midlands province in Zimbabwe. It straddles the Great Dyke, a mineral-rich geological formation that runs north–south down the center of the country...

  • Mberengwa
    Mberengwa (District)
    Mberengwa is a district in Midlands province in Zimbabwe. The district is prone to droughts and high temperatures, but abundant in minerals like gold, iron ore, emeralds and also asbestos was mined before. Buchwa Mine, Vanguard Mine, Sandawana and C Mine are all located in Mberengwa. The name...

  • Mvuma
    Mvuma
    Mvuma is a village in Midlands province in Zimbabwe.Located 192 km south of Harare along the Harare - Masvingo highway. Approx 100 km from Masvingo....

  • New Featherstone
  • Njelele
  • Redcliff
    Redcliff, Zimbabwe
    Redcliff is a town situated in the Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, with a population of approximately 35,000 . The town is about 220 km south west of the capital, Harare....

  • Sherwood
  • Shurugwi
    Shurugwi
    Shurugwi, formerly Selukwe, a town and administrative centre in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe, located about 350 km south of Harare; population 16,138...

  • Silobela
    Silobela
    Silobela is an agricultural village in Gweru District in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about west of Kwekwe, north-west of Gweru, and bordering Nkayi on the west...

  • Somabhula
    Somabhula
    Somabhula is a village in Midlands province in Zimbabwe. It is also the rail junction for Zimbabwe's southern links to neighboring Mozambique and South Africa. It was a major beef and mixed farming area up until the time that Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF confiscated farmland from white farmers. It is...

  • The Range
  • Zhombe
    Zhombe
    Zhombe is a village in the province of Midlands, Zimbabwe. It is located about 55 km north-west of Kwekwe and 100 km south-east of Gokwe.Well known growth points in Zhombe:...

  • Zvishavane
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