Chipata
Chipata is a growing multi-cultural town in Eastern Zambia, and is a popular refueling station for overlanders on their way east to Malawi, west to South Luangwa National Park, or north to Lundazi.
- Type: City with 456,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Chipatá” and “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
- Historically known as: “Fort Jameson”
Chipata
- Category: locality
- Location: Eastern Zambia, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-13.6391° or 13° 38′ 21″ south
Longitude
32.6458° or 32° 38′ 45″ east
Population
456,000
Elevation
1,147 metres (3,763 feet)
IATA airport code
CIP
UN/LOCODE
ZM CIP
Open location code
5GRJ9J6W+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chipata” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chipata”
- Amharic: “ቺፓታ”
- Arabic: “تشيباتا”
- Armenian: “Չիպատա”
- Asturian: “Chipata”
- Azerbaijani: “Çipata”
- Belarusian: “Чыпата”
- Bengali: “চিপাতা”
- Bulgarian: “Чипата”
- Catalan: “Chipata”
- Cebuano: “Chipata”
- Chinese: “奇帕塔”
- Croatian: “Chipata”
- Danish: “Chipata”
- Dutch: “Chipata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيباتا”
- Finnish: “Chipata”
- French: “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
- French: “Chipata”
- German: “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
- German: “Chipata”
- Greek: “Τσιπάτα”
- Gujarati: “ચિપાતા”
- Hausa: “Chipata”
- Hebrew: “צ’יפאטה”
- Hindi: “चिपाता”
- Indonesian: “Chipata”
- Italian: “Chipata”
- Japanese: “チパタ”
- Javanese: “Chipata”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಪಾಟಾ”
- Kazakh: “Чипата”
- Kirghiz: “Чипата”
- Korean: “치파타”
- Kotava: “Chipata”
- Latvian: “Čipata”
- Lithuanian: “Čipata”
- Malay: “Chipata”
- Marathi: “चिपाता”
- Moksha: “Чипата”
- Northern Frisian: “Chipata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chipata”
- Norwegian: “Chipata”
- Nyanja: “Chipata”
- Oromo: “Chipata”
- Panjabi: “ਚਿਪਾਤਾ”
- Persian: “چیپاتا”
- Polish: “Chipata”
- Portuguese: “Chipata”
- Pushto: “چپاتا”
- Romanian: “Chipata”
- Russian: “Чипата”
- Sinhala: “චිපාටා”
- Slovak: “Chipata”
- Slovenian: “Chipata”
- Somali: “Chipata”
- Spanish: “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
- Spanish: “Chipata”
- Swahili: “Chipata”
- Swedish: “Chipata”
- Tajik: “Чипата”
- Tamil: “சிபாடா”
- Tatar: “Чипата”
- Telugu: “చిపత”
- Thai: “ชีปาตา”
- Tumbuka: “Chipata”
- Turkish: “Chipata”
- Ukrainian: “Чипата”
- Urdu: “چپاتا”
- Uzbek: “Chipata”
- Vietnamese: “Chipata”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chipata”
- Western Mari: “Чипата”
- Zulu: “Chipata”
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