Kadoma, Zimbabwe
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Kadoma is a town in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982. The town was founded in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted a Village management board in 1907. In 1917 the Gatooma municipality was created; it was named after the nearby kraal of Chief Katuma.
The town is at the centre of a mining area which includes Gold, Copper, Nickel. There is cotton farming around, and the town has some associated industry. It is at a height of 1,162m.
