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Victoria Falls, known in the local Sotho language as Mosi-oa-Tunya (The Smoke That Thunders), is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and animals. It is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 metres (8.5 furlongs !!). Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone is believed to have been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855, and he named them in honour of the then Queen Victoria of Britain.

The falls are formed as the full width of the Zambezi river plummets in a single vertical drop of 108 metres (354 ft), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water. The spray from the falls typically rises to a height of over 400 metres (1,300 ft), sometimes even twice as high, and is visible from up to 48 km (30 mi) away. At full moon, a 'moonbow' can be seen in the spray rather than the usual daylight rainbow.

European settlement of the Victoria Falls area started around 1900, and 1904 the Victoria Falls Hotel was opened to accommodate visitors arriving on a newly-built new railway. The falls became an increasingly popular attraction during British colonial rule of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), with the town of Victoria Falls becoming the main tourist centre.

By the end of the 1990s almost 400,000 people were visiting the falls annually, and this was expected to rise to over a million in the next decade. Unlike the game parks, Victoria Falls has more Zimbabwean and Zambian visitors than international tourists; the attraction is accessible by bus and train, and is therefore comparatively inexpensive to reach.

In February 2020, National Geographic reported that extreme swings in rainfall brought on by climate change were threatening the natural existence of the falls, with rising temperatures causing the region to grow hotter and drier.