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Mbanza-Ngungu

Mbanza-Ngungu

Mbanza-Ngungu, formerly known as Thysville or Thysstad, named after Albert Thys, is a city and territory in Province in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on a short branch off the Matadi-Kinshasa Railway.
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  • Type: City with 143,000 residents
  • Description: locality in Kongo - Central in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located along the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line of which it is the main stage
  • Also known as: “Thystad”

Mbanza-Ngungu

Latitude
-5.25° or 5° 15′ south
Longitude
14.8667° or 14° 52′ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
735 metres (2,411 feet)
Open location code
6F6PPVX8+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29806457
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2312888
Wiki­data ID
Q857577
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbanza-Ngungu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mbanza Ngungu”
  • Afrikaans: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Afrikaans: “Thysstad”
  • Afrikaans: “Thysville”
  • Arabic: “مبانزا نغونغو”
  • Asturian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Basque: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Bengali: “বাঞ্জা-নঙ্গুঙ্গু”
  • Catalan: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Cebuano: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Chinese: “姆班加恩贡古”
  • Chinese: “姆班扎恩古恩古”
  • Danish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Dutch: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Dutch: “Thysstad”
  • Dutch: “Thysville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مبانزا نجونجو”
  • Esperanto: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Finnish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • French: “Mbanza Ngungu”
  • French: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • French: “Sona Qongo”
  • French: “Thysville”
  • Georgian: “მბანზა-ნგუნგუ”
  • German: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • German: “Sona Qongo”
  • German: “Thysville”
  • Greek: “Μπάνζα-Νγκούνγκου”
  • Gujarati: “બેન્ઝા-નગુન્ગુ”
  • Hindi: “बान्जा - गुंगू”
  • Hungarian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Indonesian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Italian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Japanese: “ムバンザ・ヌグング”
  • Japanese: “ンバンザ・ヌグング”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಂಝ-ಗುಂಗು”
  • Kongo: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Korean: “음반자응궁구”
  • Latvian: “Mbanza-Nugungu”
  • Lingala: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Malay: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Marathi: “बेंझा-नगांगू”
  • Mingrelian: “მბანზა-ნგუნგუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Polish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Polish: “Thysville”
  • Portuguese: “Mabanza-Angungu”
  • Portuguese: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Romanian: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Russian: “Мбанза-Нгунгу”
  • Sinhala: “ම්බන්සා-න්ගුන්ගු”
  • Slovak: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Spanish: “Mbanza Ngungu”
  • Spanish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Spanish: “Thysville”
  • Swahili: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Swedish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Tagalog: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Tamil: “பன்சா -நுங்கு”
  • Telugu: “బాన్జా- గుంగు”
  • Thai: “บันซ่า-กุนกู”
  • Turkish: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбанза-Нгунгу”
  • Urdu: “مبانزا-نجونجو”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mbanza-Ngungu”
  • Zulu: “Mbanza-Ngungu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mbanza-Ngungu”. Photo: Radio Okapi, CC BY 2.0.