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Blank Map of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s ten provinces, with Harare and Bulawayo as small city provinces and Lake Kariba on the border.

Blank Map of Zimbabwe

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Write the name of each numbered province.Answer key

  1. Bulawayo
  2. Harare
  3. Manicaland
  4. Mashonaland Central
  5. Mashonaland East
  6. Mashonaland West
  7. Masvingo
  8. Matabeleland North
  9. Matabeleland South
  10. Midlands

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each province is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a province is answered.

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  1. Bulawayo A city province in the southwest, between the two Matabelelands.
  2. Harare The capital, a city province in the northeast.
  3. Manicaland The eastern edge, along the border with Mozambique.
  4. Mashonaland Central In the north, above Harare.
  5. Mashonaland East East and south of Harare.
  6. Mashonaland West West of Harare, reaching north to Lake Kariba.
  7. Masvingo In the southeast, between Manicaland and Matabeleland South.
  8. Matabeleland North The largest province, in the west.
  9. Matabeleland South In the southwest, along the southern border.
  10. Midlands In the middle of the country.

How this list was compiled: The ten provinces of Zimbabwe, today's list; two of them, Harare and Bulawayo, are cities with the status of a province. The count and every name were read on 2026-10-01 in section 267 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe (as printed at https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Zimbabwe_2017, which calls the two cities Bulawayo Metropolitan Province and Harare Metropolitan Province; both forms are accepted), in ISO 3166-2:ZW as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:ZW) and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Zimbabwe. The lines were tested the same day against the boundary data: 63 towns fall in the right shape, and none of the eight larger provinces differs from the area in Wikipedia's table by more than 5 percent. Lake Kariba, on the border with Zambia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kariba), is drawn as open water. The neighboring countries are land that is not numbered or asked. Outlines: Natural Earth 5.1.2, credited under the drawing. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Water cut out of the shapes from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 18.9°S 30.1°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Zimbabwe shows its ten provinces, with Lake Kariba as open water on the northern border and the neighboring countries drawn plain. Switch Borders off and it prints as a plain outline.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered for a number on each of the ten provinces or Named for their names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key puts the names on a separate sheet.

Two cities among the provinces

Harare and Bulawayo are cities with the rank of a province. Each is a small shape set among larger provinces. Three provinces carry the name Mashonaland and two the name Matabeleland.

  • Find the two small shapes first: Harare in the northeast and Bulawayo in the southwest.

Questions and answers

How many provinces does Zimbabwe have?

Ten. Eight are provinces in the usual sense, and two, Harare and Bulawayo, are cities with the status of a province. The constitution lists all ten, and this map numbers them.

What is the largest province of Zimbabwe?

Matabeleland North, in the west. Its capital is Lupane, and Victoria Falls is its largest town.

Which countries border Zimbabwe?

Four. Zambia lies to the north, Mozambique to the east, South Africa to the south and Botswana to the southwest. Zimbabwe is landlocked, so the outline has no coast. The neighbors are drawn as plain land, without names.

What is the lake on the map of Zimbabwe?

Lake Kariba, a reservoir on the Zambezi that borders Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is drawn as open water, and the line through it is the border between the two countries.

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