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Chiredzi

Chiredzi is a small town in Masvingo province in south-east Zimbabwe. It is located near the Runde River, which has a tributary called the Chiredzi. As the administrative center for Chiredzi District, it is where both the rural and district counc ...

Chirundu, Zimbabwe

Chirundu is a village and border post in Zimbabwe on the border with Zambia, in Mashonaland West province. The name Chirundu means "people following one another in a line or queue" probably referring to the crossing of the Zambezi river by bridge ...

Colleen Bawn

Colleen Bawn lies in Gwanda District, in Matabeleland South Province, in southwest Zimbabwe. It is located about 144 kilometres 89 mi, by road, southeast of Bulawayo, the nearest large city. This location lies on Highway A-6, the main road betwee ...

Columbina Rural Service Center

Columbina Rural Service Center is a populated place in Zhombe. It is 95km northwest of Kwekwe and 67km southwest of Kadoma. The center is located near the now defunct Empress Nickel Mine which is located about 4 km to the South-West. I have a blu ...

Commoner, Zimbabwe

Commoner, Zimbabwe is a populated place and a place where highly deformed and folded quartz reef structure gold ore is extracted. It is about 50 km west-southwest of Kadoma by air and 68 km by road. 67 km north-west of Kwekwe by air and 96 km by ...

Darwendale

Darwendale is a small town 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. Zimmermans farm which w ...

Domboshava

Domboshava is a village in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located in an area of granite hills about 27 km north of Harare. The village is named after a large granite hill near the village. There are several rock formations at t ...

Dorowa

Dorowa is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located 3 km south of the Save River in the Upper Save valley about 90 km west of Mutare. The village grew up around the opencast Dorowa Mine where phosphate was discovered in 1945. The ...

Eiffel Flats

The village began in 1905 as a residential township for the Cam and Motor gold mine, operated by Rio Tinto Group, now Rio Zim. The original mines are now closed. Wiridzayi Nguruve, who in 1982 became the first Commissioner of the Zimbabwe Republi ...

Empress Mine Township, Zimbabwe

Empress Mine Township is a populated place in the area formerly known as Salakuhle in Zhombe Communal Land, Kwekwe District of the Midlands Province in Zimbabwe. It is Zhombes largest growth point yet plays second fiddle to Zhombe Joel, the curre ...

Epworth, Zimbabwe

Epworth is located about twelve kilometres from the Harare city centre. It is a high-density dormitory town administered by the Epworth Local Board. It is bisected by a stream into two parts. The Balancing Rocks found in the northern approaches o ...

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. Esigo ...

Figtree, Zimbabwe

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 ...

Filabusi

Filabusi is a town and area in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe. The town is the district capital of Insiza and a service centre for the surrounding mining and farming areas. In Emfelabuso mining district was the main supplier of gold mine ...

Gokwe centre

Gokwe Centre is a rural small town in the Midlands province in Zimbabwe. The town is usually referred to as "Gokwe Centre" because the larger region is called Gokwe.

Gurajena

Gurajena is a Chieftainship which was reduced to Headman during the colonial Era 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 Ma ...

Gwengwerere

Gwengwerere is a budding urban plant, a growth point in Zimbabwean sense. A Growth Point is such because it is meant to grow into a town of sorts, complete with its own industries and housing estates. It grows faster than the normal evolution of ...

Gweru District

Gweru District gets its name from Ikwelo River now Gweru River which has the city as its source and primary drainage basin. The name Gweru is further damage Gwelo name, which was the distortion of the original Ikwelo name is given in the first is ...

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 Di ...

Headlands, Zimbabwe

Headlands is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located on the main Harare-Mutare road about 136 km from Harare. It is a trading post and tobacco farming area. The settlement was established in 1891 by white settlers and named Laur ...

Ingama

Ingama is a village about 20 km south west of the present day Bulawayo, the second largest city of Zimbabwe. Ingama is about 5 km to the north of Old Bulawayo Mzilikazis last royal residence. Old Bulawayo is now being rebuilt as the AmaNdebele ar ...

Inyati

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

Kadoma, Zimbabwe

The city is located in Kadoma District, Mashonaland West Province, one of the 10 administrative provinces in Zimbabwe. This location lies approximately 166 kilometres 103 mi, by road, southwest of Harare, the national capital and largest city in ...

Kariba, Zimbabwe

Kariba is a town in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, located close to the Kariba Dam at the north-eastern end of Lake Kariba, near the Zambian border. According to the 2012 Population Census, the town had a population of 26.451. Located in th ...

Kariyangwe

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

Karoi

Karoi is located in Karoi District, Mashonaland West Province, in central northern Zimbabwe. It is located approximately 85 kilometres 53 mi, by road, northwest of Chinhoyi, the nearest large town, and the location of the provincial headquarters. ...

Kezi, Zimbabwe

Kezi is a village in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe. The language spoken in Kezi is predominantly Northern Ndebele, which is the second most spoken language in Zimbabwe. It is home to the old mine shafts at Bhalagwe Mountain or Kopje whe ...

Kotwa, Zimbabwe

Kotwa is a small town in Mudzi District, Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. It is the capital of the district, serving as its administrative and commercial centre. Demographics of Kotwa lies at the heart of Toko-Tonga region, generally consider ...

Kwekwe

It is located in Kwekwe District, in Midlands Province, in the center 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 resul ...

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. The name is also applied to the areas surrounding the town. Built arou ...

Lions Den, Zimbabwe

The town lies in Makonde District, Mashonaland West Province, in central northern Zimbabwe. It is located about 25 kilometres 16 mi, northwest of Chinhoyi, the nearest large town, and the location of the district and provincial headquarters. This ...

Lutumba

Lutumba is a village in Beitbridge District in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. This is a small rural growth point along the Masvingo–Harare route. The inhabitants are dominantly Venda speaking and some Tsonga speaking people, too. I ...

Macheke

Macheke is a small Zimbabwean town located in Murewa District, province of Mashonaland East, 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 ...

Magomana

Magomana is a small village located in Mwenezi. A string of mountains separates it from the main wall of Manyuchi Dam, less than five miles away in the north. The village is found on a watershed within the Maranda communal lands south of the Mwen ...

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 three secondary schools. The schools are M ...

Maranda, Zimbabwe

Maranda, locally known as "No. 1", is a small business center on the northern edge of Mwenezi, Zimbabwe. It is the home town of Dr. Love, the former popular musician and Nikita Mangena, Zimbabwe Peoples Revolutionary Army military leader during t ...

Marira

Marira is a village in the rural areas of Shurugwi, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, 25 km southeast of Shurugwi along the main road to Masvingo, Beit Bridge from Gweru thereby linking it with main cities of Zimbabwe and other neighbouring countries ...

Marondera

It was first known as Marandellas Kraal, corrupted from Marondera, chief of the ruling VaRozvi people who lived in the area. British colonialist as they were colonizing Zimbabwe, first used it as a rest stop on the way to Harare. Later destroyed ...

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. There are three mines in the town: Gaths Mine, King Mine and Temeraire Mine.

Massi Kessi

Massi Kessi is a town near Mutare in the Manicaland province in Zimbabwe, near the border with Mozambique, on the road and railway to Beira.

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 ...

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. It was originally rendered ...

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.

Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe

The town lies in Mount Darwin District, in Mashonaland Central Province in north-eastern Zimbabwe. It is located approximately 160 kilometres 99 mi, by road, northeast of Harare, the capital and largest city in that country.

Mount Selinda

Mount Selinda, at an altitude of 1.100 metres, is a village and mission station in the province of Manicaland in the eastern mountains of Zimbabwe. Located close to the Mozambique border, it lies in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Mount Se ...

Mukumbura

Mukumbura is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. Mukumbura was immortalized in the song, its a long way to Mukumbura, by Mike Westcott and Leprechaun. The song 1977 was the music from "the long way to Tipperary". It rose to #2 ...

Munyati

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

Mupandawana

Mpandawana is a town and the largest service centre in Gutu, Zimbabwe. In the early years of independent Zimbabwes economic planning, Mpandawana was designated as a "growth point". By 2012 the settlement had a population of over 30.000, and was r ...

Murambinda

It is located in Buhera District, Manicaland Province, in eastern Zimbabwe. Its location is approximately 140 kilometres 87 mi, by road, southwest of Mutare, the location of the provincial headquarters. The village of Buhera, where the district h ...

Murewa

Murewa is a township 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. "Growth ...