Zambezi
Zambezi is a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia, lying on the Zambezi River, west of Kabompo. It is at the western end of the M8 road. It is known for the palaces of the chiefs of the Lunda and Lovale people.
- Town with about 10,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,080 metres (3,540 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code BBZ
- …is also known as “Zambezi, Zambia”
- …was formerly known as “Balovale”
- Description: human settlement in North-Western Province, Zambia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zambezi Airport.
Zambezi Airport
Aerodrome
Zambezi Airport is an airport serving the town of Zambezi in the Northwestern Province of Zambia.
Zambezi
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-13.55008° or 13° 33′ 0″ south
Longitude
23.11521° or 23° 6′ 55″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZM BBZ
Open location code
5GR5C4X8+X3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Zambezi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر زامبيزي”
- Bulgarian: “Замбези (град)”
- Bulgarian: “Замбези”
- Catalan: “Zambesi”
- Cebuano: “Zambezi”
- Chinese: “贊比西”
- Chinese: “赞比西”
- Chinese: “赞比西河”
- Czech: “Zambezi”
- Dagbani: “Zambezi”
- Danish: “Zambezi”
- Dutch: “Zambezi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر زامبيزى”
- Esperanto: “Zambezi”
- Estonian: “Zambezi”
- Finnish: “Sambesi”
- French: “Zambèze”
- French: “Zambezi”
- Fulah: “Zambezi, Zambia”
- Ga: “Zambezi”
- German: “Zambezi”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zambezi, Zambia”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zambezi”
- Hausa: “Zambezi”
- Hebrew: “זמבזי”
- Hungarian: “Zambézi”
- Icelandic: “Sambesí”
- Ido: “Zambezi”
- Interlingua: “Zambezi”
- Italian: “Zambesi”
- Italian: “Zambezi”
- Japanese: “ザンベジ”
- Japanese: “ザンベジ川”
- Lithuanian: “Zambezė”
- Moksha: “Замбэзи”
- Norwegian: “Zambezi”
- Polish: “Zambezi”
- Portuguese: “Rio Zambeze”
- Portuguese: “Zambeze”
- Portuguese: “Zambezi”
- Romanian: “Zambezi, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Zambezi”
- Russian: “Замбези”
- Serbian: “Замбези”
- Slovenian: “Zambezi”
- Spanish: “Zambeze”
- Spanish: “Zambezi”
- Swahili: “Zambezi”
- Swedish: “Zambesi”
- Twi: “Zambezi”
- Ukrainian: “Замбезі”
- Western Mari: “Замбези (хала)”
- Western Mari: “Замбези”
- Zulu: “Zambezi, Zambiya”
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