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The Eastgate Centreis a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe, designed by Mick Pearce. Designed to be ventilated and cooled by entirely natural means, it was probably the first building in the world to use natural cooling to this level of sophistication. It opened in 1996 on Robert Mugabe Avenue and Second Street, and ...
Harare is Zimbabwe's leading financial, commercial, and communications centre, as well as an international trade centre for tobacco, maize, cotton, and citrus fruits. [ citation needed ] Manufacturing of products including textiles , steel , and chemicals is also economically significant, as is the trade of precious minerals such as gold ...
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. As of the 2022 census, the province has a population of 2,427,209, [1] of whom 1,849,600 live in Harare proper, 371,244 in Chitungwiza ...
Lagos, Nigeria. Nairobi, Kenya. Cairo, Egypt. Cape Town, South Africa. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This article ranks the tallest buildings on the African continent by height. Initially, only a small number of major financial and commercial centres boasted large skylines, such as Cairo, Johannesburg, New Alamein, Lagos and Nairobi. However, since ...
364. Inscription. 1986 (10th Session) Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe from the 13th century, having been settled in the 4th century AD. [1] Construction on the city began in the 11th century ...
There are five World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe, with a further two on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Zimbabwe to be inscribed to the list was the Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, in 1984. The most recent site listed was the Matobo Hills, in 2003. Three sites in Zimbabwe are listed for their cultural and two ...
Harare. Eastgate Centre. Categories: Shopping malls in Zimbabwe. Lists of shopping malls. Lists of buildings and structures in Zimbabwe.
Aerial view of Harare, the capital and centre of Zimbabwe. A view of Kilindini Harbour in Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city and its historical gate to the Indian Ocean trade. Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in the Imperial city of Marrakech, Morocco, a commercial key to the Sahara.