Mansa
Mansa is the capital of the Luapula Province of Zambia, and headquarters of Mansa District. It takes its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the Luapula River. During British rule the city was named Fort Rosebery.
- Type: Town with 129,000 residents
- Description: city in Zambia
- Also known as: “Mansa, Zambia”, “Mbila”, and “Roseberry”
Mansa
- Categories: city, ward of Zambia, and locality
- Location: Luapula Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-11.2007° or 11° 12′ 2″ south
Longitude
28.8894° or 28° 53′ 22″ east
Population
129,000
Elevation
1,216 metres (3,990 feet)
IATA airport code
MNS
United Nations Location Code
ZM MNS
Open location code
5GWCQVXQ+PQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mansa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fort Rosebery”
- Afrikaans: “Mansa”
- Amharic: “ማንሳ”
- Arabic: “مانسا”
- Asturian: “Mansa”
- Azerbaijani: “Mansa”
- Belarusian: “Манса”
- Bengali: “মানসা”
- Bulgarian: “Манса”
- Cebuano: “Mansa”
- Central Kurdish: “مانسا، زامبیا”
- Chinese: “曼萨”
- Chinese: “曼薩”
- Croatian: “Mansa”
- Danish: “Mansa (Zambia)”
- Danish: “Mansa”
- Dutch: “Mansa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مانسا”
- Finnish: “Mansa”
- French: “Mansa”
- German: “Mansa”
- Greek: “Μάνσα”
- Hausa: “Mansa”
- Hindi: “मांसा”
- Indonesian: “Mansa”
- Irish: “Mansa”
- Italian: “Mansa”
- Japanese: “マンサ”
- Japanese: “マンサ空港”
- Javanese: “Mansa”
- Kazakh: “Манса”
- Kirghiz: “Манса”
- Korean: “만사”
- Kotava: “Mansa”
- Lithuanian: “Mansa”
- Malay: “Mansa”
- Moksha: “Манса”
- Northern Frisian: “Mansa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mansa”
- Oromo: “Mansa”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਂਸਾ”
- Persian: “مانسا”
- Polish: “Mansa”
- Portuguese: “Mansa”
- Pushto: “مانسا”
- Romanian: “Mansa, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Mansa”
- Russian: “Манса”
- Somali: “Mansa”
- Spanish: “Mansa”
- Swahili: “Mansa”
- Tajik: “Манса”
- Tatar: “Манса”
- Turkish: “Mansa”
- Ukrainian: “Манса”
- Urdu: “مانسا، زیمبیا”
- Urdu: “مانسا”
- Uzbek: “Mansa”
- Venetian: “Mansa”
- Western Mari: “Манса”
- Zulu: “Mansa, Zambiya”
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