<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> hararecity.co.zw </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Dialling code 4 (or 04 from within Zimbabwe) </Td> </Tr> <P> Harare (/ həˈrɑːreɪ /; officially named Salisbury until 1982) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe . The city proper has an area of 960.6 km (371 mi) and an estimated population of 1,606,000 in 2009, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area in 2006 . Situated in northeastern Zimbabwe in the country's Mashonaland region, Harare is a metropolitan province, which also incorporates the municipalities of Chitungwiza and Epworth . The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of 1,483 metres (4,865 feet) above sea level and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category . </P> <P> The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury . Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923 . Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation . It retained the name Salisbury until 1982, when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence . </P>

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