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title: "Zimbabwe — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Zimbabwe: capital Harare, area 390,757 km², population 16,950,795 (2025), currency Zimbabwe Gold. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/zimbabwe/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Zimbabwe

**Zimbabwe: Capital Harare**

390,757 km² · 16,950,795 people (2025) · Zimbabwe Gold

Victoria Falls on the Zambezi is roughly twice the height of Niagara and one and a half times as wide. Great Zimbabwe, the stone city the country is named for, was built without mortar between the 11th and 15th centuries and its outer wall is 250 m around and 11 m high in places.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Harare
- **Area:** 390,757 km² — 150,872 sq mi
- **Population:** 16,950,795 (2025)
- **Density:** 43.4 people per km²
- **Currency:** Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG, ZiG)
- **Official languages:** Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, Sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa
- **Time zone:** UTC+02:00
- **Calling code:** +263
- **Drives on the:** left
- **ISO codes:** ZW · ZWE
- **Continent:** Africa

## How it compares

- **By area:** 61 of 200
- **By population:** 74 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Iraq | 438,317 | 47,020,774 |
| Paraguay | 406,752 | 7,013,078 |
| Zimbabwe ← | 390,757 | 16,950,795 |
| Japan | 377,915 | 123,366,734 |
| Germany | 357,022 | 83,491,249 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

Harare

### What currency does Zimbabwe use?

The Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG).

### How big is Zimbabwe?

390,757 km², or 150,872 square miles — 61 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Zimbabwe drive on?

The left.

## Related pages

- [Iraq](https://atoneplace.net/country/iraq/)
- [Paraguay](https://atoneplace.net/country/paraguay/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country/germany/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Sudan](https://atoneplace.net/country/sudan/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]