Mansa
Mansa is the capital of the Luapula Province of Zambia, and headquarters of Mansa District. It takes its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the Luapula River. During British rule the city was named Fort Rosebery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 129,000 residents
- Description: city in Zambia
- Also known as: “Mansa, Zambia”, “Mbila”, and “Roseberry”
Mansa
- Categories: city, ward of Zambia, and locality
- Location: Luapula Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-11.2007° or 11° 12′ 2″ southLongitude
28.8894° or 28° 53′ 22″ eastPopulation
129,000Elevation
1,216 metres (3,990 feet)IATA airport code
MNSUnited Nations Location Code
ZM MNSOpen location code
5GWCQVXQ+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1239624868OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
907770Wikidata ID
Q997069
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mansa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fort Rosebery”
- Afrikaans: “Mansa”
- Arabic: “مانسا”
- Asturian: “Mansa”
- Belarusian: “Манса”
- Bulgarian: “Манса”
- Cebuano: “Mansa”
- Central Kurdish: “مانسا، زامبیا”
- Chinese: “曼萨”
- Chinese: “曼薩”
- Croatian: “Mansa”
- Danish: “Mansa (Zambia)”
- Danish: “Mansa”
- Dutch: “Mansa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مانسا”
- Finnish: “Mansa”
- French: “Mansa”
- German: “Mansa”
- Greek: “Μάνσα”
- Irish: “Mansa”
- Italian: “Mansa”
- Japanese: “マンサ”
- Japanese: “マンサ空港”
- Korean: “만사”
- Kotava: “Mansa”
- Lithuanian: “Mansa”
- Moksha: “Манса”
- Northern Frisian: “Mansa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mansa”
- Polish: “Mansa”
- Portuguese: “Mansa”
- Romanian: “Mansa, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Mansa”
- Russian: “Манса”
- Spanish: “Mansa”
- Swahili: “Mansa”
- Turkish: “Mansa”
- Ukrainian: “Манса”
- Urdu: “مانسا، زیمبیا”
- Urdu: “مانسا”
- Venetian: “Mansa”
- Western Mari: “Манса”
- Zulu: “Mansa, Zambiya”
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