It comes from the shona word "Madzimabwe" meaning great houses of stone, a reference to the prolific Great Zimbabwe-which IS made of great houses of stone.
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The name comes from a Shona word for Great Zimbabwe which is a ruin that was once a city in the 1400s.
Of the 4 countries named, Zimbabwe is the smallest and Zambia is the largest.
In 1000 AD, the Shona people began their ruling on the land and then named it Zimbabwe
There is a city named Darwin in Australia.
Southern Rhodesia, named for Cecil Rhodes
Zimbabwe used to be called Southern Rhodesia and Zambia was Northern Rhodesia.
The Victoria Falls on the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe was created by a proto-Shona empire now known as Empire of Zimbabwe. The empire existed between the 12th and 16th centuries and reigned over much of modern Zimbabwe and parts of Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana.
Rhodesia, named after Cecil Rhodes, gained it's independence on November 11 1965 and reverted to it's former name Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe was named best education system in African in 2008