africa • ZWE
Zimbabwe
Location marker · geographic overview
20° S / 30° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Harare
- Population
- 16,634,373 2024
- Area
- 390,757 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Chewa, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zimbabwean Sign Language
- Currency
- Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Food & everyday culture
For a sample of what Zimbabweans eat (in some form, nearly every day), ask for "sadza and stew/relish." The stew part will be familiar, served over a large portion of sadza - a thick ground corn paste (vaguely like polenta and the consistency of thick mashed potatoes) that locals eat at for lunch and supper. It's inexpensive, quite tasty and very filling.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-23. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Southern Africa
- Calling code
- +263
- Internet domain
- .zw
- Land border codes
- BWA, MOZ, ZAF, ZMB
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .zw. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.