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Musumba

Musumba is a large town in in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Lunda. The practices of the Lunda kingdom still persist in Musumba.
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  • Type: City with 97,000 residents
  • Description: is a town in the province of Lwalaba (Loualaba) in the province of Katanga in Congo-Kinshas
  • Also known as: “Musumb” and “Musumbu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kapanga Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the town of Kapanga in , Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Musumba

Latitude
-8.36142° or 8° 21′ 41″ south
Longitude
22.64152° or 22° 38′ 30″ east
Population
97,000
Elevation
912 metres (2,992 feet)
Open location code
6G34JJQR+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 623134082
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
207889
Wiki­data ID
Q451850
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Musumba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موسومبا”
  • Asturian: “Musumba”
  • Belarusian: “Мусумба-Кекесэ”
  • Bengali: “মুসুম্বা”
  • Chinese: “穆桑巴”
  • Danish: “Musumba”
  • Dutch: “Musumba”
  • Finnish: “Musumba”
  • French: “Musumb”
  • French: “Musumba”
  • German: “Musumba Kekese”
  • German: “Musumba”
  • Greek: “Μουσούμπα”
  • Gujarati: “મુસુંબા”
  • Hebrew: “מוסומבה”
  • Hindi: “मुसूम्बा”
  • Indonesian: “Musumba”
  • Italian: “Musumba”
  • Japanese: “ムスンバ”
  • Kannada: “ಮುಸುಂಬಾ”
  • Korean: “무숨바”
  • Latvian: “Musumba”
  • Lithuanian: “Musumba”
  • Malay: “Musumba”
  • Marathi: “मुसूंबा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musumba”
  • Polish: “Musumba”
  • Portuguese: “Musumba”
  • Russian: “Муссумба”
  • Russian: “Мусумба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Musumba”
  • Sinhala: “මුසම්බා”
  • Spanish: “Musumba”
  • Swahili: “Musumb”
  • Swahili: “Musumba”
  • Swedish: “Musumba”
  • Tamil: “முசம்பா”
  • Telugu: “ముసుంబా”
  • Thai: “มูซัมบา”
  • Turkish: “Musumba”
  • Ukrainian: “Мусумба”
  • Urdu: “مسومبا”
  • Vietnamese: “Musumba”

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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 “Musumba”. Photo: Bergeycm, CC BY-SA 3.0.