1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Zimbabwe
Compare this sourced profile of Harare, Zimbabwe before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Harare—1,542,813, Africa/Harare, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Harare is GeoNames ID 890299. Its recorded administrative path is Harare → Zimbabwe, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Harare occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-02-07; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Harare ranks 304 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Zimbabwe entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 66. Its 1,542,813 population value is 1.40 times the 1,104,383 median for the country cohort and 1.71 times the 902,588 regional median. Harare is rank 1 among the 2 selected Zimbabwe entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Harare's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Harare's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bulawayo at 366.219 km with 665,952 recorded people; Lusaka at 399.161 km with 2,212,301 recorded people; Beira at 457.091 km with 687,764 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 90.872 km. Compared with Bulawayo, Harare's recorded population is 2.32 times as large. Against Harare, Bulawayo follows Bulawayo → Zimbabwe in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Zimbabwe cohort, uses the shared Africa/Harare identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Harare's. Against Harare, Lusaka follows Lusaka Province → Zambia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Zambia cohort rather than Zimbabwe, uses Africa/Lusaka instead of Africa/Harare, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Harare's. Against Harare, Beira follows Sofala → Mozambique in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mozambique cohort rather than Zimbabwe, uses Africa/Maputo instead of Africa/Harare, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Harare's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,152 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Harare's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 890299, the coordinate pair 17.8277 / 31.0534, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 894701 at 366.219 km bind Harare to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Harare's reference point is 17.8277° south and 31.0534° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Harare is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Harare's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Harare's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Harare's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Harare, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Harare's closest other entries in this atlas are Bulawayo (366.219 km), Lusaka (399.161 km), Beira (457.091 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-07; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.