Western Province

Western Province is one of the 10 provinces in and encompasses most of the area formerly known as Barotseland. The capital is , and together with the neighbouring town of , Mongu is treated as the capital of Barotseland.
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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”, “Occidentale”, “Ocidental”, “Western Province, Zambia”, “Westprovincie”, “ZM-01”, “Западна провинција”, “వెస్ట్రన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “ザンビア北西州”, and “西部州 (ザンビア)”

Western Province

Latitude
-15° or 15° south
Longitude
24° east
Population
1,360,000
Elevation
1,113 metres (3,652 feet)
Open location code
5GQ62222+22
Geo­Names ID
896140
Wiki­data ID
Q748486
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Western Province” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Westelike Provinsie”
  • Amharic: “Western Province”
  • Arabic: “المحافظة الغربية”
  • Armenian: “Արևմտյան պրովինցիա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərb provinsiyası”
  • Basque: “Mendebaldea”
  • Belarusian: “Заходняя правінцыя”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েস্টার্ন প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Западна провинция”
  • Catalan: “Província Occidental”
  • Cebuano: “Western Province (lalawigan sa Zambia)”
  • Cebuano: “Western Province”
  • Chinese: “西方省”
  • Chinese: “西部省”
  • Danish: “Vestprovinsen”
  • Danish: “Western”
  • Dutch: “Western Province”
  • Dutch: “Western”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Provinco”
  • Estonian: “Lääneprovints”
  • Finnish: “Läntinen maakunta”
  • French: “Province de l’Ouest”
  • French: “province occidentale”
  • Galician: “Provincia Occidental, Zambia”
  • Galician: “Provincia Occidental”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Westprovinz”
  • Greek: “Δυτική Επαρχία”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી પ્રાંત”
  • Hausa: “Lardin Yamma”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז המערב”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी प्रांत”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat, Zambia”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat”
  • Italian: “provincia Occidentale”
  • Italian: “Provincia Occidentale”
  • Japanese: “西部州”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Kulon”
  • Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс провинциясы”
  • Kirghiz: “Батыш провинциясы”
  • 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”
  • Norwegian: “Western”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Lixa”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان غربی (زامبیا)”
  • Persian: “استان غربی”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Zachodnia”
  • Portuguese: “Província Ocidental”
  • Pushto: “لوېديزه ولایت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia de Vest, Zambia”
  • Romanian: “Provincia de Vest”
  • Russian: “Западная провинция”
  • Serbian: “Западна покрајина”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර පළාත”
  • Sinhala: “බස්නාහිර පළාත, සැම්බියාව”
  • Slovenian: “Western Province”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna provinca”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Galbeed”
  • Spanish: “Provincia del Oeste”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Occidental”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Magharibi”
  • Swedish: “Western Province, Zambia”
  • Swedish: “Western”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ғарбӣ”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш провинциясе”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш Провинциясы”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్రన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเวสเทิร์น”
  • Turkish: “Batı Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Західна провінція”
  • Urdu: “مغربی صوبہ، زیمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “G’arbiy provinciya”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Phía Tây”
  • Western Mari: “Вадывел провинци”
  • Zulu: “Western Province, Zambiya”
  • Zulu: “Western Province”

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