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Zajas
Zajas (Зајас, Zajaz) is a village in Kičevo Municipality, North Macedonia, former seat of a 97 percent Albanian rural municipality of 13 settlements and 11,605 people, home of Ali Ahmeti, merged into Kichevo in 2013.
Zawada
Zawada (plural Zawady) names several Polish villages: a large early medieval stronghold near Tarnów, a Roman-period cemetery with a Nero aureus in Staszów county, strongholds near Opole and Zielona Góra, and World War I cemeteries.
Zermatt
Zermatt, car-free Valais village at 1,620 m beneath the Matterhorn; 5,922 residents, 2.57 million overnight stays, 360 km of slopes with Cervinia, Gornergrat railway, and the Matterhorn Alpine Crossing to Italy since 2023.
Zhijiang
Zhijiang (芷江), formally Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County in western Hunan's Huaihua, is a 2,200-year-old county where Japan's 1945 surrender was accepted; an International Peace City since 2021 and China's 144th national historical and cultural city since 2026.
Zillis
Zillis (Romansh: Ziràn) is a village in Graubünden, Switzerland, at the southern end of the Viamala gorge, known for its Romanesque church of St. Martin.
Zliv
Zliv: name of two Czech settlements. Zliv u Libáň (Jičín District), medieval village, first mentioned 1327, Gothic church and vanished fortress, La Tène graphite finds; and Zliv u Českých Budějovic, a South Bohemian town.
Zzyzx, California
Zzyzx (ZYE-ziks), formerly Soda Springs, is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, within Mojave National Preserve. Founded as Curtis Howe Springer's 1944 health resort, named to be alphabetically last, it now hosts the CSU Desert Studies Center.