Zimbabwe country guide — editorial and map sources
Prepared 26 October 2026.

Country, history and geography
https://www.britannica.com/place/Zimbabwe
https://www.zimstat.co.zw/
The population 15,178,979 is the 2022 census count, not a current estimate.
Area is approximately 390,757 square kilometres. Mozambique is the longest
international boundary. Nyangani is 2,592 metres. The Great Dyke is particularly
associated with chromium and platinum-group metals.

Constitution and institutions
https://www.veritaszim.net/node/315
https://parlzim.gov.zw/
Section 6 of the 2013 Constitution recognises sixteen languages, including
sign language. The reading reproduces the constitutional list without treating
its umbrella labels as one language family. It distinguishes prime minister
Mugabe from first president Canaan Banana and dates the 2017 succession.

Heritage, culture and conservation
https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/zw/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/365/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/306/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/302/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/509/
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/art-of-crafting-and-playing-mbira-sansi-the-finger-plucking-traditional-musical-instrument-in-malawi-and-zimbabwe-01541
https://www.zimbabwetourism.net/
Five World Heritage properties are distinguished from national parks and from
the intangible mbira/sansi inscription. Victoria Falls is shared with Zambia.
Culture, food and languages vary by community; the linked Shona lessons teach
one of the country's languages. Landscape pins are representative learning
locations, not entrances, routes or assurances of access.

Economy and sporting records
https://www.rbz.co.zw/
https://olympics.com/en/athletes/kirsty-coventry
https://www.owgr.com/
ZiG means Zimbabwe Gold; it was introduced in April 2024. The 100-trillion-dollar
note was issued in January 2009 after the 2008 hyperinflation. Nick Price's total
time at world number one was 43 weeks, not 331. Coventry won seven Olympic medals
across Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

Maps
The country outline is the unchanged Zimbabwe feature of Worldly's retained
public/countries.geojson, derived from Natural Earth; public domain.
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
The offline source snapshot is scripts/zimbabwe-outline-source.geojson.
Sixteen curated approximate settlement centres are retained in
scripts/zimbabwe-map-places.json. Rebuild maps, place names and the atlas pack
with node scripts/build-zimbabwe-map.mjs. Website builds do not fetch maps.
This release adds a city map; it does not provide province or water geometry.
Victoria Falls and Kariba Dam are boundary sights. Their real coordinates are
retained even where the generalised outline differs by roughly 0.2 km or less.
Protected-area pins represent landscapes rather than official park extents.

Quiz review
All 80 original prompts and answers were matched against the production public
facts API before publication. The seed fixture is unchanged. Runtime corrections
retain lesson and question IDs, titles and learner progress. No database writes
or schema changes are needed. Corrections address the longest border, Great
Dyke minerals, ZiG, the banknote date, Nick Price's ranking record, dated political
events, language classification and overgeneralised descriptions of communities.

Photographs
All ten topic photos and the banner reuse existing local Shona-course assets.
Each source and licence is also shown with the image. No new image licence is
claimed; resizing in the existing assets does not remove the source attribution.
The Great Zimbabwe banner pin identifies the site, not a precise camera position.

geography: The Zambezi River at Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/time-days.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zambezi-at-Mutsango.JPG
Babakathy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

history: The stone walls of Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/challenge.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great-zim-aerial-looking-West.JPG
Janice Bell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

language: First Street in Harare, Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/essentials.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Street,_Harare,_Zimbabwe.jpg
Gary Bembridge, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

culture: The stone walls of the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/greetings.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great-Zimbabwe.jpg
Image taken by Jan Derk in 1997 in Zimbabwe ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

economy: Farmland in the Shona countryside of Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/supermarket.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shona_farms_Zimbabwe.jpg
User:Ulamm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

politics: The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/cafe-restaurant.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastgate_Centre,_Harare,_Zimbabwe.jpg
David Brazier, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

nature: A white rhinoceros and calf in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/small-talk.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Rhino_Mother_and_Juvenile_in_Matopos_National_Park.jpg
Susan Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

food: Sadza with greens and meat, a Zimbabwean meal
/images/speak/shona/ordering.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goat_Offal.JPG
Tamuka Hwami, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

landmarks: Victoria Falls Bridge over the gorge of the Zambezi
/images/speak/shona/getting-around.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Falls_-_VicFalls3484.jpg
lumoplank, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

people: Mbare market in Harare, Zimbabwe
/images/speak/shona/numbers-money.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_market_Harare_Zimbabwe_5866074969.jpg
Shack Dwellers International, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons