How well is the zoom on the nikon d3200?

I can't find any info about zoom, the camera i have now has a 35 x optical zoom and I want to know if the nikons is better.
I don't know if this is a dumb question haha please help.

Added (1). The lens is a 18-55mm NIKKOR VR Lens

The zoom on DSLR cameras depends on what lens you attach to it.

I would've thought that was obvious - 3x optical zoom (55/18) more or less.

DSLRs do, indeed, rely on the lens fitted, that's why asking about it is pretty irrelevant, but just about any cropped-sensor DSLR body has an 18-55mm as the most common option.

3x, not as long as the one you have on the other camera.

But cameras are like horses. Imagine the Nikon is a Shire horse, immensely powerful, capable of doing almost anything. Your 35x zoom cam is like a race horse, fast but tires after a couple of miles.

Each has its strengths. The d3200 is fast, super for sports, great in low light, has a mic input for video (no more 'thumble' sounds) and far better picture quality due to its large sensor. Not to mention 55 years of Nikon F fitting lenses capable of being used on it.

The cam with the 35x zoom, will be slower to operate (could miss vital milliseconds in sport), and image quality will be acompromise between megapixels and a sensor less than1/4 of the size of the D3200.

The zoom "power" is a function of a lens. DSLRs have no zooms themselves, but it depends on what lens(es) are used or available.

A 18-55mm lens is a 3x zoom. But if you add a 55-300mm lens (2 lens kit) then collectively you have a 17x zoom (18mm to 300mm).

However, methinks you are placing too much emphasis on zoom power. Zoom power has little to do with the quality of the lens and the resulting photos, it has more to do with being a crutch for those that do not know how to zoom-with-their-feet.

In fact if anything, a 35x zoom is the halmark of a mediocre lens. Anytime you increase zoom power in a lens, the optics become worse. This is just a function of physics. So while compact/bridge cameras have a single mediocre lens that may give you 40x, a DSLR can also give you 40x - but it requires multiple, smaller power (and higher quality) zoom lenses to do so.

And that is the whole point of a DSLR, to provide/maintain high image quality by using multiple lenses.

I have several lenses for my DSLR - among them are a:

Sigma 8-16mm (2x zoom)
Sigma 17-50mm (3x zoom)
Tokina 80-400mm (5x zoom)

With these three lenses, I have a focal length from 8mm to 400mm, which collectively is a 50x zoom range. And it will vastly outperform any 50x zoom bridge camera. And that is the whole idea of DSLRs.

Correct. The D3200 does not have zoom. It is only the camera.

Zoom is a lens property and only indicates focal length ratio. The 18-55mm lens is a 3X zoom lens (55mm divided by 15mm equals 3).It's not a significant value in the dSLR world. A non-zooming (1X) 1000mm lens will make a distant object seem 18X closer to you (1000mm divided by 55mm equals 18) than that 3X 18-55mm zoom lens. Yes, zoom means nothing. Learn focal length.

http://keerok-photography.blogspot.com/2011/05/lenses-so-many-of-them-there-is-no-best.html

The most zoom in a lens the dSLR world at the moment is the 18-300mm 16.67X Nikkor. Take note that the more zoom a lens has, the poorer it is optically. If you want the best optical quality out there, concentrate on non-zooming lenses.