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Harare (/ h ə ˈ r ɑːr eɪ / hə-RAR-ay), [5] formerly Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.The city proper has an area of 982.3 km 2 (379.3 sq mi), a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census [6] and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. [6]
Banknotes dated 1980 bore Salisbury as the name of Zimbabwe's capital, which renamed itself to Harare on 18 April 1982: $5, $10 and $20 notes dated 1982 and later bore the updated name, but early batches of $10 notes dated 1982 erroneously bore the capital's old name. There were no $2 notes dated 1982: those dated 1983 and later had the updated ...
The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 16.6 million people as per 2024 census, [15] Zimbabwe's largest ethnic group are the Shona, who make up 80% of the population, followed by the Northern Ndebele and other smaller minorities.
Cities in Zimbabwe [1]; City Province Census 1982 Census 1992 Census 2002 Census 2012 Census 2022 Harare: Harare: 656,011 1,189,103 1,435,784 1,485,231
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Harare Central is a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe.It is located in the central area of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.Like all Zimbabwean constituencies, Harare Central elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post electoral system.
The capital Salisbury, which had been named after the British Prime Minister, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was renamed Harare, after the Shona chief Neharawa. Other place names were simply new transliterations , to reflect the orthography of the local language—many places had been gazetted with Sindebele orthography during the colonial period.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.