Zimbabwe

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Bulawayo, Mutare — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Harare was founded as Fort Salisbury in 1890 by the British South Africa Company's Pioneer Column and was renamed at independence in 1980 after a Shona chief — Neharawa, meaning 'he who does not sleep' — and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, opened in 1957, houses one of the continent's most significant collections of stone sculpture from the Shona school.

El idioma oficial es 16 official languages, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Zimbabwe se contacta mediante el código +263. Zimbabwe's stone-carving tradition — Shona sculpture — emerged in the 1950s when artist Frank McEwen encouraged local artists to work with the country's abundant verdite and springstone, producing a school of modernist figurative sculpture that reached major international galleries in London and New York within a decade.

Zimbabwe comparte sus fronteras con Botswana, Sudáfrica, Zambia, Mozambique. El tráfico rodado circula por la izquierda, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Zimbabwe's cricket team produced Henry Olonga and Andy Flower, who wore black armbands at the 2003 World Cup to mourn 'the death of democracy in Zimbabwe' — one of sport's most deliberate political statements, delivered at the risk of prosecution and later exile, by players who prioritised conscience over career.

Victoria Falls — Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders' in Tonga — spans 1,708 metres across the Zambezi River gorge and produces a spray cloud visible 50 kilometres away; David Livingstone became the first European to see it in 1855 and described it as a sight 'so lovely it must have been gazed upon by angels'.