Western Province
Western Province is one of the 10 provinces in Zambia and encompasses most of the area formerly known as Barotseland. The capital is Mongu, and together with the neighbouring town of Limulunga, Mongu is treated as the capital of Barotseland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: province of Zambia with 1,360,000 residents
- Description: province of Zambia
- Also known as: “Barotse Province”, “Barotseland Protectorate”, “Barotseland Province”, and “Western Province, Zambia”
Western Province
- Location: Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Western Province” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Westelike Provinsie”
- Arabic: “المحافظة الغربية”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան պրովինցիա”
- Basque: “Mendebaldea”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя правінцыя”
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্টার্ন প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Западна провинция”
- Catalan: “Província Occidental”
- Cebuano: “Western Province (lalawigan sa Zambia)”
- Cebuano: “Western Province”
- Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng”
- Chinese: “西方省”
- Chinese: “西部省”
- Danish: “Vestprovinsen”
- Danish: “Western”
- Dutch: “Western Province”
- Dutch: “Western”
- Dutch: “Westprovincie”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Provinco”
- Estonian: “Lääneprovints”
- Finnish: “Läntinen maakunta”
- Finnish: “Western Province”
- French: “Occidentale”
- French: “Province de l’Ouest”
- French: “province occidentale”
- Galician: “Provincia Occidental, Zambia”
- Galician: “Provincia Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთის პროვინცია”
- German: “Western Province”
- German: “Westprovinz”
- German: “ZM-01”
- Greek: “Δυτική Επαρχία”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז המערב”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी प्रांत”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat, Zambia”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat”
- Italian: “provincia Occidentale”
- Italian: “Provincia Occidentale”
- Japanese: “ザンビア北西州”
- Japanese: “西部州 (ザンビア)”
- Japanese: “西部州”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “서부주”
- Kotava: “ZambiaWesternWinka”
- Latvian: “Rietumu province”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų provincija”
- Malay: “Western Province”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng (Zambia)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Western Province”
- Northern Frisian: “Western”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Province”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western”
- Norwegian: “Western”
- Persian: “استان غربی (زامبیا)”
- Persian: “استان غربی”
- Polish: “Prowincja Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Província Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Provincia de Vest, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Provincia de Vest”
- Russian: “Западная провинция”
- Serbian: “Западна покрајина”
- Serbian: “Западна провинција”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර පළාත”
- Sinhala: “බස්නාහිර පළාත, සැම්බියාව”
- Slovenian: “Western Province”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna provinca”
- Slovenian: “ZM-01”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Oeste”
- Spanish: “Provincia Occidental”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Magharibi”
- Swahili: “Western Province”
- Swedish: “Western Province, Zambia”
- Swedish: “Western”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш провинциясе”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్రన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్రన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเวสเทิร์น”
- Turkish: “Batı Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Західна провінція”
- Urdu: “مغربی صوبہ، زیمبیا”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Phía Tây”
- Western Mari: “Вадывел провинци”
- Zulu: “Western Province, Zambiya”
- Zulu: “Western Province”
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