diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zoneinfo/test_zoneinfo.py b/Lib/test/test_zoneinfo/test_zoneinfo.py
index b0dbd768cab7e1..d2845495c7f8b6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_zoneinfo/test_zoneinfo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zoneinfo/test_zoneinfo.py
@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ def test_bad_keys_paths(self):
             "../zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles",  # Traverses above TZPATH
             "America/../America/Los_Angeles",  # Not normalized
             "America/./Los_Angeles",
-            "",
         ]
 
         for bad_key in bad_keys:
diff --git a/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py b/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
index 990a5c8b6a9372..5db17bea045d8c 100644
--- a/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
+++ b/Lib/zoneinfo/_tzpath.py
@@ -83,11 +83,6 @@ def find_tzfile(key):
 
 
 def _validate_tzfile_path(path, _base=_TEST_PATH):
-    if not path:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "ZoneInfo key must not be an empty string"
-        )
-
     if os.path.isabs(path):
         raise ValueError(
             f"ZoneInfo keys may not be absolute paths, got: {path}"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-09-01-09-12.gh-issue-114713.lkq9vZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-09-01-09-12.gh-issue-114713.lkq9vZ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d30975a8a5115b..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-03-09-01-09-12.gh-issue-114713.lkq9vZ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Handle case of an empty string passed to :class:`zoneinfo.ZoneInfo`.