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