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Without doubt, the Victoria Falls constitute one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world.
Visitors can gaze at the mighty Zambezi as it flows, broad and placid, to the brink of a basalt lip seventeen hundred metres wide before taking a headlong plunge into the frothy chasm of the gorge below. This is the world's largest sheet of falling water, yet although its fame has spread far and wide, the site has been tastefully preserved so that tourists do not spoil the magic of the very place they have come to see.
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Zimbabwa The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the South Africa Company in 1923.
A 1961 constitution was formulated to keep whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded voting rights for the black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia).
UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980.
ZimbabweA country in southern Africa, formerly known as Southern Rhodesia and then as Rhodesia.
Zimbabwe was named after the famous 14th-century stone-built city of Great Zimbabwe, located in the southeast.
The country is renowned for the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River and for its bountiful wildlife.
Zimbabwe’s population is divided into two main ethnic and linguistic groups, the Ndebele and the Shona, the former mostly inhabiting the southwest.
The capital is Harare, formerly known as Salisbury, which is the center of a rich commercial farming district.
Zimbabwe’s economy is diversified, with services, industry, and agriculture providing a balanced share of the country’s earnings.
Africa Second largest of the Earth’s seven continents, covering 30,244,000 sq km (11,677,000 sq mi), including its adjacent islands.
It comprises 23 percent of the world’s total land area.
In 2000 some 13 percent of the world’s population, an estimated 797 million people, lived in Africa, making it the world’s second most populous continent, after Asia.
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