Tshela
Tshela is the main town of Bas-fleuve district in Kongo Central Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The town was linked to the port of Boma by an isolated narrow gauge railway, the Mayumbe Line, from 1889 to 1984.Tshela
- Type: City with 64,200 residents
- Description: place in Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tshela, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.9899° or 4° 59′ 24″ south
Longitude
12.9394° or 12° 56′ 22″ east
Population
64,200
Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)
Open location code
6F7J2W6Q+3P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Tshela” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيلا”
- Bengali: “টিশেলা”
- Cebuano: “Tshela”
- Chinese: “切拉”
- Chinese: “特色拉”
- Danish: “Tshela”
- Dutch: “Tshela”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيلا”
- Finnish: “Tshela”
- French: “Tshela”
- Fulah: “Tshela”
- German: “Tshela”
- Greek: “Τσέλα”
- Gujarati: “શેલા”
- Hindi: “शेला”
- Indonesian: “Tshela”
- Italian: “Tshela”
- Japanese: “チェラ”
- Kannada: “ತ್ಸೆಲಾ”
- Kongo: “Tshela”
- Korean: “트쉬엘라”
- Latvian: “Čela”
- Lingala: “Tshela”
- Lithuanian: “Čela”
- Malay: “Tshela”
- Marathi: “त्हेला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tshela”
- Polish: “Tshela”
- Portuguese: “Tshela”
- Romanian: “Tshela”
- Russian: “Тшела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tshela”
- Sinhala: “ට්ස්හෙලා”
- Spanish: “Tshela”
- Swahili: “Tshela”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Tshela”
- Swedish: “Tshela”
- Tamil: “டீசேல”
- Telugu: “షేలా”
- Thai: “เชแลน”
- Turkish: “Tshela”
- Ukrainian: “Чела”
- Urdu: “تشیلا”
- Vietnamese: “Tshela”
- Zulu: “Tshela, Khongo-Kinshasa”
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