Kipushi
Kipushi is a border city 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
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″ south
Longitude
27.2365° or 27° 14′ 12″ east
Population
133,000
Elevation
1,348 metres (4,423 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CD KPU
Open location code
5GW966QP+WJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Slovenian: “Kipushi”
- Swahili: “Kipushi”
- Swedish: “Kipushi”
- Tagalog: “Kipushi”
- Ukrainian: “Кіпуші (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Кіпуші”
- Zulu: “Kipushi”
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