Samfya
Samfya is a town located in the Zambian province of Luapula. It is the centre of Samfya District. The town is located on the south-western shore of Lake Bangweulu, on the longest stretch of well-defined shore of that lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Samfya
- Type: Town with 51,300 residents
- Description: human settlement in Zambia
- Category: locality
- Location: Luapula Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-11.3685° or 11° 22′ 7″ southLongitude
29.5517° or 29° 33′ 6″ eastPopulation
51,300Elevation
1,183 metres (3,881 feet)Open location code
5GWFJHJ2+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 560824588OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
899274Wikidata ID
Q2093156
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Zulu—“Samfya” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Самфя”
- Cebuano: “Samfya”
- Chinese: “薩姆菲亞”
- Danish: “Samfya (Zambia)”
- Danish: “Samfya”
- Dutch: “Samfya”
- French: “Samfya”
- Fulah: “Samfya”
- German: “Samfya”
- Hebrew: “סמפיה”
- Italian: “Samfya”
- Japanese: “サムヒャ”
- Japanese: “サムフィア”
- Kotava: “Samfya”
- Moksha: “Самфия”
- Polish: “Samfya”
- Portuguese: “Samfya”
- Romanian: “Samfya, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Samfya”
- Russian: “Самфья”
- Spanish: “Samfya”
- Swahili: “Samfya”
- Ukrainian: “Самфія”
- Western Mari: “Самфья”
- Zulu: “Samfya”
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