Kafue

Kafue is a town on the T2 road in the of and it lies on the north bank of the , after which it is named. It is the southern gateway to the central Zambian plateau on which and the mining towns of and the Copperbelt are located.
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Kafue

Latitude
-15.7445° or 15° 44′ 40″ south
Longitude
28.1755° or 28° 10′ 32″ east
Population
219,000
Elevation
996 metres (3,268 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZM KAF
Open location code
5GPC754G+56
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255723997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
915883
Wiki­data ID
Q1022290
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kafue” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كافو
  • Belarusian: Кафуэ
  • Bengali: কাফু
  • Bulgarian: Кафуе
  • Catalan: Kafue
  • Cebuano: Kafue
  • Chinese: 卡富埃
  • Chinese: 喀辅埃河
  • Danish: Kafue
  • Dutch: Kafue
  • Egyptian Arabic: كافو
  • Estonian: Kafue
  • Finnish: Kafue
  • French: Kafue
  • German: Kafue
  • Greek: Κάφουε
  • Gujarati: કાફુ
  • Hindi: काफू
  • Indonesian: Kafue
  • Irish: Kafue
  • Italian: Kafue
  • Japanese: カフエ
  • Kannada: ಕಾಫ್ಯೂ
  • Korean: 카푸에
  • Latvian: Kafue
  • Lithuanian: Kafuė
  • Malay: Kafue
  • Marathi: काफुइ
  • Moksha: Кафуэ
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kafue
  • Polish: Kafue
  • Portuguese: Cafué
  • Portuguese: Kafue
  • Romanian: Kafue, Zambia
  • Romanian: Kafue
  • Russian: Кафе
  • Russian: Кафуэ
  • Silesian: Kafue
  • Sinhala: කාෆු
  • Spanish: Kafue
  • Swahili: Kafue
  • Swedish: Kafue
  • Tamil: காஃயுஏ
  • Telugu: కాఫు
  • Thai: กาฟูน์
  • Tumbuka: Kafue
  • Turkish: Kafue
  • Ukrainian: Кафуе
  • Urdu: کافوی
  • Vietnamese: Kafue
  • Western Mari: Кафуе
  • Zulu: Kafue

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