Kazungula
Kazungula is a border town in Chobe District, northern Botswana, about 8 kilometres east of the district capital Kasane. It lies on the south bank of the Chobe and Zambezi rivers, close to the quadripoint where the borders of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe converge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,700 residents
- Description: village in Botswana
- Also known as: “Kazungula, Botswana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kazungula Bridge.
Kazungula Bridge
Bridge
Photo: JonGT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kazungula Bridge is a road and rail bridge over the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Botswana at the town of Kazungula. The 923-metre-long and 18.5-metre-wide bridge, which has a longest span of 129 metres, links the town of Kazungula in Zambia with Botswana. Kazungula Bridge is situated 3½ km northeast of Kazungula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kazungula and Kasane.
Kazungula
Photo: JonGT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kazungula is a small border town on the northern banks of the mighty river Zambezi in Zambia. It marks Zambia's border with three other countries: Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, and is a unique place where four national borders meet.
Kasane
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kasane is a city in the Okavango-Chobe region, the northeast corner of Botswana. Set on the south bank of the Chobe River, it faces Namibia's Caprivi Strip to the north. Zimbabwe and Zambia lie nearby.
Kazungula
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Chobe District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.80529° or 17° 48′ 19″ southLongitude
25.23567° or 25° 14′ 8″ eastPopulation
8,700Elevation
935 metres (3,068 feet)Open location code
5GJ756VP+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 287416875OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7575074Wikidata ID
Q170870
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Kazungula” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “卡宗古拉”
- Dutch: “Kazungula”
- French: “Kazungula”
- German: “Kazungula”
- Italian: “Kazungula”
- Japanese: “カズングラ”
- Malagasy: “Kazungula”
- Polish: “Kazungula”
- Portuguese: “Kazungula”
- Russian: “Казунгула”
- Swahili: “Kazungula”
- Swedish: “Kazungula, Botswana”
- Swedish: “Kazungula”
- Tswana: “Kazungula, Botswana”
- Turkish: “Kazungula”
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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 “Kazungula”. Photo: Julieta39, CC BY-SA 2.5.