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ZIMBABWE
State of the Southern Africa, bordered in the North-West by Zambia, the west by Botswana, the south by South Africa, in the east and the North-East by Mozambique. This wedged territory, called Rhodesia during British colonization, counts aujourd?hui 11 d?habitants million, of which two thirds live in rural zone. Upset by revolts of peasants without ground since his independence in 1980, Zimbabwe is a country torn between its populations white and noire.
Geography.
The natural framework.
Relief. Does the territory have as a principal axis the reliefs of Great Dyke (?le great seam?) located on the high plateaus (High Veld), of Pre-Cambrian era, which cross it in scarf of south-west to the North-East on more than 500 km. The climax (Inyangani mount, 2 595 m) rises in the east, close to Mozambique. Located entirely in altitude, the country is made of steppes (in the Western areas near the desert of Kalahari) and especially of savannas.
Climate. Located in tropica...

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