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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]
Harare Province, which includes the city of Harare, is the most populous of Zimbabwe's ten provinces, with over two million inhabitants in 2012. Manicaland Province and Midlands Province are the second and third most populous provinces, respectively. Seven of the ten provinces have a population larger than one million.
Harare Metropolitan Province is divided into four local government areas - a city council, a municipality and two local boards. Harare Province has an area of 872 square kilometres (337 sq mi), equal to 0.22% of the total area of Zimbabwe. It is the second-smallest in area of the country's provinces, after the city-province of Bulawayo.
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
Name Towns and cities Established Population (2022) [4] Total area [5] Location Capital Largest km 2 mi 2; Bulawayo: Bulawayo: 1997 665,952 900 347 Harare: Harare: 1997 2,427,231
The population of Zimbabwe has grown during the 20th century. This is in accordance with the model of a developing country with high birth rates and falling death rates, resulting in relatively high population growth rate (around 3% or above in the 1960s and early 1970s).
Aerial view of Harare, the capital and centre of Zimbabwe. Kilindini Harbour in Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city and its historical gate to the Indian Ocean trade. The Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in the Moroccan Imperial city of Marrakech is an old commercial key to the Sahara.
Parliament of Zimbabwe in Harare. Zimbabwe is a republic with a presidential system of ... the population of Zimbabwe was estimated by the United Nations at ...