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National Geographic : 1981 Nov
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PROTECTED LANDS consist of former European and African park, forest, and wildlife lands and former national areas. S11COMMERCIAL LANDS include farmland formerly reserved for Europeans and smaller areas 0 reserved for freehold tenure by Africans. I TRIBAL TRUST LANDS (TTLs) consist MALAWI of reserves formerly set aside for Africans - --.. on a communal basis. - MOZAMBIQUE -- --.... -SWAZILAND yl LESOTHO 1 Zimbabwe The nation's new name first belonged to a medieval state of the Shonas, today's ethnic majority. From the 12th into the 18th centuries the Shonas forged loose confederations to control gold-mining areas and trade routes to the coast. The Ndebeles, Zimbabwe's other major ethnic group, swept into Shona lands in the 1840s from the exploding Zulu empire to the south. Then half a century later Cecil Rhodes sent forth white pioneers from South Africa, and within five years the whole territory bore his name. AREA: 390,580 sq km (150,804 sq mi). POPULATION: 7,700,000. CAPITAL: Salisbury, pop. 670,000. RELIGION: Traditional, Christian. LANGUAGE: English, Shona, Ndebele. ECONOMY: Industries: gold, asbestos, nickel, copper, coal, and chromite, food processing, textiles. Export crops: tobacco, cotton, sugar. Domestic consumption: corn, livestock, millet. CLIMATE: Moderate subtropical. SNational park I Industrial center A Mine Two major ethnic groups named in brown; 77% of the population is Shona. 0 KILOMETERS 100 O STATUTEMILES 100 DRAWNBYJOHNG. WEBER COMPILEDBYMARGUERITE B. HUNSIKER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ARTDIVISION After Rhodesia:Zimbabwe 623
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