Map of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 20.0° S, 30.0° E. Zimbabwe is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Zimbabwe is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Zimbabwe is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Zimbabwe covers about 390,757 km² (150,872 sq mi). That makes it the 60th-largest country in the world by area and the 26th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 28 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 17,073,087, the 74th-largest in the world and the 26th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Zimbabwe has an average population density of about 44 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 26th by population and 26th by area.

The seat of government is Harare, and the official currency is the Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL, $), and the main official languages are Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Chewa, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zimbabwean Sign Language. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Zimbabwe carries the ISO country codes ZW and ZWE, dials on the international calling code +263 and uses the .zw internet domain.

Zimbabwe shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are South Africa (capital Pretoria, about 63,100,945 people), Mozambique (capital Maputo, about 34,090,466 people), Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people) and Botswana (capital Gaborone, about 2,359,609 people).

By area, Zimbabwe is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 20.0° S, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Zimbabwe within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Harare. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Zimbabwe lies about 2,220 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Zimbabwe keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL, $).

The official languages are Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele, Chewa, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zimbabwean Sign Language, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +263 and websites commonly use the .zw internet domain.

In short, Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Harare. Zimbabwe has a population of about 17,073,087 and covers around 390,757 km² (150,872 sq mi), ranking it 74th in the world by population and 60th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Zimbabwe.

The flag of Zimbabwe is composed of seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow and green, with a white isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle is edged in black, spans about one-fourth the width of the field and has its base on the hoist end. A yellow Zimbabwe Bird superimposed on a five-pointed red star is centered in the triangle.

The flag of Zimbabwe is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.