Kipushi
Kipushi is a town in Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies 35 km southwest of the city of Lubumbashi, very close to the border with Zambia, at an altitude of 1329 m.Places of Interest
Highlights include Kipushi Mine.
Kipushi Mine
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kipushi Mine is an underground mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the town of Kipushi in Haut-Katanga Province. Copper mining has occurred at Kipushi since prehistory.
Kipushi
- Type: City with 133,000 residents
- Description: localite, capital of the territory of the Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category: locality
- Location: Kipushi Ville, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-11.7602° or 11° 45′ 37″ southLongitude
27.2365° or 27° 14′ 12″ eastPopulation
133,000Elevation
1,348 metres (4,423 feet)United Nations Location Code
CD KPUOpen location code
5GW966QP+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 618524223OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kipushi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيبوشي”
- Asturian: “Kipushi”
- Cebuano: “Kipushi”
- Chinese: “基普希”
- Dutch: “Kipushi”
- Esperanto: “Kipushi”
- French: “Kipushi”
- Galician: “Kipushi”
- Georgian: “კიპუში”
- German: “Kipushi”
- Hungarian: “Kipushi”
- Italian: “Kipushi”
- Japanese: “キプシ”
- Lingala: “Kipushi”
- Lithuanian: “Kipušis”
- Mingrelian: “კიპუში”
- Polish: “Kipushi”
- Portuguese: “Kipushi”
- Romanian: “Kipushi”
- Russian: “Кипуши”
- Swahili: “Kipushi”
- Swedish: “Kipushi”
- Tagalog: “Kipushi”
- Ukrainian: “Кіпуші (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Кіпуші”
- Zulu: “Kipushi”
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