Kafue
Kafue is a town on the T2 road in the Lusaka Province of Zambia and it lies on the north bank of the Kafue River, after which it is named. It is the southern gateway to the central Zambian plateau on which Lusaka and the mining towns of Kabwe and the Copperbelt are located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Kafue
- Type: Town with 219,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement, ward of Zambia, and locality
- Location: Lusaka Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.7445° or 15° 44′ 40″ southLongitude
28.1755° or 28° 10′ 32″ eastPopulation
219,000Elevation
996 metres (3,268 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZM KAFOpen location code
5GPC754G+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 255723997OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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