Southern Africa
Zambia
Luapula Province

Kawambwa

Kawambwa is a town in the province of located on the edge of the northern Zambian plateau above the valley at an altitude of 1300 m.
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  • Type: Town with 46,200 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Kawamowa”

Kawambwa

Latitude
-9.79202° or 9° 47′ 31″ south
Longitude
29.07703° or 29° 4′ 37″ east
Population
46,200
Elevation
1,342 metres (4,403 feet)
Open location code
6G2F635G+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3116162660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
176555
Wiki­data ID
Q1737290
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kawambwa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاوامبوا”
  • Bulgarian: “Кауамбуа”
  • Cebuano: “Kawambwa”
  • Chinese: “卡萬布瓦”
  • Dutch: “Kawambwa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاوامبوا”
  • Finnish: “Kawambwa”
  • French: “Kawambwa”
  • Fulah: “Kawambwa”
  • German: “Kawambwa”
  • Italian: “Kawambwa”
  • Japanese: “カワンブマ”
  • Japanese: “カワンブワ”
  • Kotava: “Kawambwa”
  • Moksha: “Кавамбва”
  • Polish: “Kawambwa”
  • Portuguese: “Kawambwa”
  • Romanian: “Kawambwa, zambia”
  • Romanian: “Kawambwa, Zambia”
  • Romanian: “Kawambwa”
  • Spanish: “Kawambwa”
  • Swahili: “Kawambwa”
  • Ukrainian: “Кавамбва”
  • Western Mari: “Кавамбва”
  • Zulu: “Kawambwa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kawambwa”. Photo: Sachoz, CC BY-SA 4.0.