Geography containing ZA-ZZ

Can you guess these places from around the world whose names contain the sequence of letters "za", "zb", and so on? I have given some crossword-type clues to assist in working out the missing letters of the answers.

For example, the clue "Country where bell is heard in the east" could be BEL-(iz)-E.
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ZA
The capital of Congo (11 letters)
Brazzaville
ZB
This central ski resort in Austria really has it; with its uniform helipad marking, it's well-supported by the Spanish (9)
Kitzbühel
ZC
Polish city (9)
Bydgoszcz
ZD
Victory for a town which hits the right note in Croatia (8)
Varaždin
ZE
Country formerly known as British Honduras (6)
Belize
ZF
Austrian village whose name means "long wood field" (12)
Langholzfeld
ZG
How to run a Bulgarian city that's very cool (7)
Razgrad
ZH
District of Taipei to which the Chinese president says no; finally, you subpoena in Beijing (9)
Xinzhuang
ZI
City of Eswatini where a guy has no-one (7)
Manzini
ZJ
Borat interrupted in an Iranian city (8)
Borāzjān
ZK
I visit one town in Oman (4)
Izkī
ZL
We hear of a castle where you are more impolite, in this Lithuanian town (9)
Kazlų Rūda
ZM
1,000 from an E. Slovakian town put on a rock event, but 100 leave (8)
Kežmarok
ZN
Some growth is seen in Chechen capital, yes (6)
Grozny
ZO
Town of South Sudan (3)
Ezo
ZP
Machine learning used at Latvian town by Great Basin native (7)
Aizpute
ZQ
The last letter he wrote, the first and last, spoke of the Force used by Solo at Kazakh city (11)
Zhezqazghan
ZR
Trophy awarded in northern city of Kosovo (7)
Prizren
ZS
Persistently scold in the year 1000, on an island in a Hungarian town (11)
Nagykanizsa
ZT
Old southern Polish city which has both a plus and minus side (7)
Olsztyn
ZU
A city of the Dominican Republic where the water has no force (4)
Azua
ZV
Question and answer session held in city in Iran (6)
Qazvin
ZW
Liberian town which ends with a rude awakening (6)
Zwedru
ZX
Street in Albania with the right rug, a shabby one, not by a number - jam with no marmalade initially - finish with a friendly greeting (16)
Rruga Shaban Jazxhi
ZY
Criticise an apple-eater in the south of a Lithuanian city (9)
Panevėžys
ZZ
City in Uzbekistan starting with J, which would get a few points in Scrabble - but being a proper noun, I would give it the chop (6)
Jizzax
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