Chingola
Chingola is a city of 266,478 in Zambia. It lies in the Copperbelt region, the country's main copper mining area and its economy relies heavily on mining activities.Chingola
- Type: Town with 210,000 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: city, ward of Zambia, big city, and locality
- Location: Chingola District, Copperbelt, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Danish: “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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