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Zimbabwe is a country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambesi and Limpopo rivers. With an area of 390,000 sq. km. and a population estimated at 11.3 million, it is surrounded by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the north and Mozambique to the east. After 33 years of administration by the British South Africa Company, from 1923 until 1980 it was officially the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, though a white settler minority regime proclaimed independence unilaterally in 1965 as the State (subsequently Republic) of Rhodesia. After a brief period as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in 1979 under an internal settlement between the regime and part of the African opposition movement, the country was returned to British rule at the end of 1979 pending elections which led to legal independence under the country's first fully-fledged majority government on 18 April 1980.