Sinazongwe
Sinazongwe is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia, lying on the north shore of Lake Kariba. It was founded in the 1950s as a local administrative centre, while its main industry now is kapenta fishing.- Type: Town with 102,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Sinasongwe”
Sinazongwe
- Categories: human settlement, ward of Zambia, and locality
- Location: Southern Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-17.26095° or 17° 15′ 39″ southLongitude
27.46057° or 27° 27′ 38″ eastPopulation
102,000Elevation
504 metres (1,654 feet)Open location code
5GJ9PFQ6+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2628481590OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
897456Wikidata ID
Q996098
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Zulu—“Sinazongwe” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sinazongwe”
- Chinese: “希納宗格韋”
- Dutch: “Sinazongwe”
- German: “Sinazongwe”
- Irish: “Sinazongwe”
- Italian: “Sinazongwe”
- Polish: “Sinazongwe”
- Portuguese: “Sinazongwe”
- Romanian: “Sinazongwe”
- Spanish: “Sinazongwe”
- Swahili: “Sinazongwe”
- Western Mari: “Синазонгве”
- Zulu: “Sinazongwe”
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