Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa. It is right between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, and South Africa are on the other side of Zimbabwe. It has a population of over 16 million.
People in Zimbabwe speak more than sixteen different dialects, but Ndebele, Shona, and English are the most common languages. The country is about 150,872 square miles, and Harare is its capital.
Since the eleventh century, Zimbabwe has had several structured kingdoms and governments and has been a significant trading and migration route. In the 1890s, the British South Africa Company made a map of the current area.
By 1923, it had become an independent British colony called Southern Rhodesia. In 1965, Rhodesia got its government, which was made up mostly of conservative white people.
The country had a guerilla war for 15 years and was cut off from the rest of the world. This ended when a peace agreement was signed, and Robert Mugabe became the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980.
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Zambia
Zambia is an independent country in South-Central Africa. It is surrounded by Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Malawi, Botswana, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zimbabwe.
Most of Zambia’s people live in and around the Copperbelt Province, the country’s economic center, and the capital city, Lusaka (the capital city).
It is a landlocked state that is about 290,587 square miles big and has about 16,591,390 people.
During the 1800s, the area was a British Protectorate called the North-Eastern Rhodesia and the Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia.
In 1911, the two parts came together to form Northern Rhodesia. On October 24, 1964, Zambia became independent. Prime Minister Kaunda was in charge at the time.
The 495-mile border between Zimbabwe and Zambia is in the south of Zambia. The border has unique natural and artificial features, such as the Victoria Falls, which UNESCO has named a world heritage site.
The River Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and it divides Zimbabwe and Zambia. Lake Kariba is the largest lake that people have made and is part of the border.
The Victoria Falls Bridge, which is right next to Victoria Falls, is one of the places where you can cross the border. Zambia and Zimbabwe are linked by the Victoria Falls Bridge, which has boundary posts at both ends.
The Chirundu Bridge is another bridge that crosses a border. Chirundu Bridge connects the village of Chirundu in Zimbabwe to the town of Chirundu.
Africa, South
South Africa is the most southern country in Africa. It has a coastline of 1,739 miles along the Indian and South Atlantic oceans.
Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia border South Africa. The country is all around the kingdom of Lesotho.
It is the twenty-fifth largest state globally and covers about 471,445 square miles. South Africa is the country in the Eastern Hemisphere that is the most southern and has more than 56 million people living there.
The 140-mile border between Zimbabwe and South Africa runs along the middle of the Limpopo River. The Pretoria Convention of 1881 and the London Convention of 1884 both agreed on where the border was.
When the Limpopo and River Shashe meets, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa meet. At the Belf Bridge, the Alfred-Belt Road Bridge connects the Zimbabwean A6 highway to the South African N1 highway. This is a major border crossing.
Botswana
Botswana is a country in southern Africa that can only be reached by land. It used to be called Bechuanaland. It has a flat landscape because the Kalahari Desert takes up more than 70% of its land. Botswana shares borders with South Africa, Namibia, and Zambia.
Botswana is a medium-sized country with more than two million people living it. It has an area of about 224,610 square miles.
It is a small country with few people living there. Only 10% of the people live in the capital city. After becoming independent on September 30, 1966, the country took its current name. In the 1960s, the country was one of the poorest states in the world.
Since then, its economy has grown, and it is now one of the fastest-growing states in the world. Their economy is based on tourism, mining, and raising cattle.
The 505-mile border between Zimbabwe and Botswana is in the northeast of Botswana. There are many places to cross the border, but Mpandamatenga is one of the oldest.
Mapandamatenga, Zimbabwe, is adjacent to an area known as Pandamatenga, Botswana. In the village of Ramokgwebana, there is another post. River Ramokgwebana in Zimbabwe, on the other side of the border, defines the village.
Mozambique
Mozambique is a country in Southern Africa. The Mozambique Channel separates it from Madagascar, Mayotte, and Comoros. Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and Malawi are next to the country.
On the east side of Mozambique, the Indian Ocean is right there. Lourenco Marques was Maputo’s name before it became Mozambique’s capital. Matola is the name of Mozambique’s biggest city.
People who spoke Bantu moved to Mozambique between the first and fifth centuries AD.
In the eleventh century, Somali, Persian, and Arab merchants came to Mozambique and set up a settlement and a port for trade. In 1975, Mozambique became a free country.
Two years after Mozambique became an independent country, it fell into a long, violent civil war that didn’t end until 1992. Since 1994, when they had their first elections with more than one party, the country has been stable.
The border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe runs through the western part of Mozambique and is 765 miles long. The Machipanda is one of the most used places to cross the border between these two countries.
The border crossing is in the east of Zimbabwe’s Mutare. Manica and Sango are also places where people cross borders. The village of Sango is on the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
It helps run the border post at the southernmost end of Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park. Mozambique’s town of Chicualacuala is linked to the border post.