Chingola

Chingola is a city of 266,478 in . It lies in the region, the country's main copper mining area and its economy relies heavily on mining activities.
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Chingola

Latitude
-12.5475° or 12° 32′ 51″ south
Longitude
27.86° or 27° 51′ 36″ east
Population
210,000
Elevation
1,363 metres (4,472 feet)
IATA airport code
CGJ
United Nations Location Code
ZM CGJ
Open location code
5GV9FV36+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435533865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
919009
Wiki­data ID
Q431533
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chingola” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Chingola
  • Arabic: شينغولا
  • Asturian: Chingola
  • Bulgarian: Чингола
  • Catalan: Chingola
  • Cebuano: Chingola
  • Chinese: 欽戈拉
  • Croatian: Chingola
  • Czech: Chingola
  • Dutch: Chingola
  • Egyptian Arabic: شينجولا
  • Esperanto: Chingola
  • Finnish: Chingola
  • French: Chingola
  • Galician: Chingola
  • German: Chingola
  • Hebrew: צ’ינגולה
  • Irish: Chingola
  • Italian: Chingola
  • Japanese: チンゴラ
  • Korean: 칭골라
  • Kotava: Chingola
  • Lithuanian: Čingola
  • Moksha: Чингола
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Chingola
  • Norwegian: Chingola
  • Persian: چینگولا
  • Polish: Chingola
  • Portuguese: Chingola
  • Romanian: Chingola, Zambia
  • Romanian: Chingola
  • Russian: Чингола
  • Spanish: Chingola
  • Swahili: Chingola
  • Swedish: Chingola
  • Tumbuka: Chingola
  • Turkish: Chingola
  • Ukrainian: Чингола
  • Urdu: چنگولا
  • Venetian: Chingola
  • Waray (Philippines): Chingola
  • Western Mari: Чингола
  • Zulu: Chingola

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chingola”. Photo: BlueSalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.