DR Congo
Kasaï Province
Tshikapa City

Tshikapa

Tshikapa is the capital city of in the . The city is located 60 km north of the border and 189 km west of at the confluence of the Tshikapa and Kasai rivers.
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  • Type: City with 635,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kasaï province
  • Also known as: “Chikapa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tshikapa Airport and Kalonda Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Tshikapa in , .

Aerodrome
is an airstrip serving Tshikapa in , . The airport is on the north side of Kalonda, a village 3 kilometres north of Tshikapa and 6 kilometres north of .

Tshikapa

Latitude
-6.4231° or 6° 25′ 23″ south
Longitude
20.7888° or 20° 47′ 20″ east
Population
635,000
Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)
IATA airport code
TSH
United Nations Location Code
CD TSH
Open location code
6G52HQGQ+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 615209242
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
204953
Wiki­data ID
Q277966
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Tshikapa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشيكابا”
  • Armenian: “Չիկապա”
  • Asturian: “Tshikapa”
  • Belarusian: “Чыкапа”
  • Bengali: “শিকাপা”
  • Bulgarian: “Чикапа”
  • Cebuano: “Tshikapa”
  • Chinese: “奇卡帕”
  • Croatian: “Tshikapa”
  • Czech: “Tshikapa”
  • Danish: “Tshikapa”
  • Dutch: “Tshikapa”
  • Esperanto: “Tshikapa”
  • Finnish: “Tshikapa”
  • French: “Tshikapa”
  • Fulah: “Tshikapa”
  • Georgian: “ჩიკაპა”
  • German: “Tshikapa”
  • Greek: “Τσικάπα”
  • Gujarati: “શિકાપા”
  • Hebrew: “טשיקאפה”
  • Hindi: “क्षिकापा”
  • Hungarian: “Tshikapa”
  • Indonesian: “Tshikapa”
  • Italian: “Tshikapa”
  • Japanese: “ツィカパ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಶಾಕಾ”
  • Korean: “트시카파”
  • Latvian: “Čikapa”
  • Lingala: “Tshikapa”
  • Lithuanian: “Čikapa”
  • Malay: “Tshikapa”
  • Marathi: “तशीकपा”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩიკაპა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tshikapa”
  • Norwegian: “Tshikapa”
  • Persian: “تشیکاپا”
  • Polish: “Tshikapa”
  • Portuguese: “Chicapa”
  • Portuguese: “Tshikapa”
  • Romanian: “Tshikapa”
  • Russian: “Чикапа”
  • Serbian: “Чикапа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tshikapa”
  • Sinhala: “ට්ෂිකපා”
  • Slovak: “Tshikapa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تشیکاپا”
  • Swahili: “Tshikapa”
  • Swedish: “Tshikapa”
  • Tagalog: “Tshikapa”
  • Tamil: “ட்ஷிகபா”
  • Telugu: “షికప”
  • Thai: “ทชิคาปา”
  • Turkish: “Tshikapa”
  • Ukrainian: “Чикапа”
  • Ukrainian: “Чікапа”
  • Urdu: “تشیکاپا”
  • Vietnamese: “Tshikapa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tshikapa”
  • Zulu: “Tshikapa”

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