Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is located in Southern Africa between South Africa and Zambia, with terrain consisting mostly of a high plateau with a higher central plateau and mountains in the east. The climate is tropical, moderated by altitude, with a rainy season from November to March and the massive Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River forming the world’s largest curtain of falling water. Harare serves as the capital, and Zimbabwe has a population of approximately 17.47 million people who speak Shona, Ndebele, and English.

Zimbabwe has a low-income Sub-Saharan economy that has been hindered by political instability and endemic corruption preventing reforms and stalling debt restructuring. Key industries include mining of coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, and diamonds, along with steel, wood products, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, clothing, and foodstuffs. The country possesses abundant natural resources including coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, and platinum group metals. Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed currency to combat ongoing hyperinflation.