Kolwezi
Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It has an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi.Photo: Martin Tuchscherer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 453,000 residents
- Description: city of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Kolwesi”
Kolwezi
- Categories: official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and locality
- Location: Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-10.717° or 10° 43′ 1″ southLongitude
25.467° or 25° 28′ 1″ eastPopulation
453,000Elevation
1,485 metres (4,872 feet)IATA airport code
KWZUnited Nations Location Code
CD KWZOpen location code
5GX77FM8+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 435755862OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
922773Wikidata ID
Q271404
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kolwezi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kolwezi”
- Arabic: “كولويزي”
- Armenian: “Կոլվեզի”
- Asturian: “Kolwezi”
- Belarusian: “Калвезі”
- Belarusian: “Кальвэзі”
- Bengali: “কল্বেজি”
- Breton: “Kolwezi”
- Catalan: “Kolwezi”
- Cebuano: “Kolwezi”
- Chinese: “科卢韦齐”
- Chinese: “科盧韋齊”
- Croatian: “Kolwezi”
- Czech: “Kolwezi”
- Danish: “Kolwezi”
- Dutch: “Kolwezi”
- Esperanto: “Kolwezi”
- Estonian: “Kolwezi”
- Finnish: “Kolwezi”
- French: “Kolwezi”
- French: “Kolwézi”
- Georgian: “კოლვეზი”
- German: “Kolwezi”
- Greek: “Κολβέζι”
- Gujarati: “કોલવેઝી”
- Hebrew: “קולווזי”
- Hindi: “कोल्वेजी”
- Hungarian: “Kolwezi”
- Indonesian: “Kolwezi”
- Italian: “Kolwezi”
- Japanese: “コルヴェジ”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಲ್ವೆಜಿ”
- Kirghiz: “Колвези”
- Korean: “콜웨지”
- Latvian: “Kolvezi”
- Latvian: “Kolwezi”
- Lithuanian: “Kolvezis”
- Luba-Lulua: “Kolwezi”
- Luba-Lulua: “Kolwézi”
- Malay: “Kolwezi”
- Marathi: “कोलवेझी”
- Mingrelian: “კოლვეზი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolwezi”
- Norwegian: “Kolwezi”
- Persian: “کلوزی”
- Polish: “Kolwezi”
- Portuguese: “Coluezi”
- Portuguese: “Kolwezi”
- Romanian: “Kolwezi”
- Russian: “Колвези”
- Serbian: “Kolvezi”
- Serbian: “Ville de Kolwezi”
- Serbian: “Колвези”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kolwezi”
- Sinhala: “කොල්වෙසි”
- Spanish: “Kolwezi”
- Swahili: “Kolwezi ya Lisano”
- Swahili: “Kolwezi”
- Swedish: “Kolwezi”
- Tagalog: “Kolwezi”
- Tamil: “கொலவெஜி”
- Telugu: “కొలీవెజి”
- Thai: “โคลวีสิ”
- Turkish: “Kolwezi”
- Ukrainian: “Колвезі”
- Urdu: “کولویزی”
- Vietnamese: “Kolwezi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kolwezi”
- Zulu: “Kolwezi”
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