Pweto
Pweto is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the administrative center of Pweto Territory. The town was the scene of a decisive battle in December 2000 during the Second Congo War which resulted in both sides making more active efforts to achieve peace.- City with about 38,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 950 metres (3,130 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code PWO
- Description: town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Latitude
-8.47411° or 8° 28′ 27″ south
Longitude
28.89871° or 28° 53′ 55″ east
UN/LOCODE
CD PWO
Open location code
6G3CGVGX+9F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Pweto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بويتو”
- Armenian: “Պվետո”
- Bengali: “প্বেতো”
- Cebuano: “Pweto”
- Chinese: “普韋托”
- Chinese: “普韦托”
- Croatian: “Pweto”
- Danish: “Pweto”
- Dutch: “Pweto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بويتو”
- Finnish: “Pweto”
- French: “Pweto”
- German: “Pweto”
- Greek: “Ποέτο”
- Gujarati: “પ્વેટો”
- Hindi: “प्वीटो”
- Indonesian: “Pweto”
- Italian: “Pweto”
- Japanese: “プウェト”
- Japanese: “プエト”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ವೆಟೊ”
- Korean: “프웨토”
- Latvian: “Pveto”
- Lithuanian: “Pvetas”
- Malay: “Pweto”
- Marathi: “पावेतो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pweto”
- Polish: “Pweto”
- Portuguese: “Pweto”
- Romanian: “Pweto”
- Russian: “Пвето”
- Sinhala: “ප්වෙටෝ”
- Spanish: “Pweto”
- Swahili: “Mpweto”
- Swahili: “Pweto”
- Swedish: “Pweto”
- Tamil: “பிவெடோ”
- Telugu: “పీవెటో”
- Thai: “พวีโต”
- Turkish: “Pweto”
- Ukrainian: “Пвето”
- Urdu: “پویتو”
- Vietnamese: “Pweto”
- Zulu: “Pweto”
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Highlights include Cathedrale: Eglise catholique and Marché Pweto.
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