What is the significance of the Victoria Falls?

Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Victoria Falls, a World Heritage site in Zambia and Zimbabwe, from National Geographic. read more

Victoria Falls is among the most impressive natural wonders in the world. This legendary waterfall is among the biggest, and most awe-inspiring, on the planet. The Zambezi River is more than 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) wide when it cascades over the lip of a large basalt plateau and plunges as much as 354 feet (108 meters). read more

Iron-using Khoisan hunter-gatherers displaced the Stone Age people living in the area and in turn were displaced by Bantu tribes such as the southern Tonga people known as the Batoka/Tokalea, who called the Victoria falls Shungu na mutitima. The Matabele, later arrivals, named them aManz‘ aThunqayo. read more

Victoria Falls is approximately 1700m wide, and varies in height from 80-108 meters. It’s one and a half times wider than Niagara Falls and is twice the height making it the biggest curtain of water in the world. read more

Victoria Falls is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World and the major waterfall on the Zambezi River in Africa. It is famous for being the largest waterfall in the world, in the wet season. The African people who live around the falls call it Mosi-oa-Tunya which means"smoke that thunders". read more