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Chipata

Chipata is a growing multi-cultural town in , and is a popular refueling station for overlanders on their way east to , west to , or north to .
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  • Type: City with 456,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
  • Historically known as: “Fort Jameson”

Chipata

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
United Nations Location Code
ZM CIP
Open location code
5GRJ9J6W+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6378481619
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
918702
Wiki­data ID
Q856151
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chipata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chipata”
  • Afrikaans: “Fort Jameson”
  • Arabic: “تشيباتا”
  • Armenian: “Չիպատա”
  • Asturian: “Chipata”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יפאטה”
  • Hindi: “चिपाता”
  • Indonesian: “Chipata”
  • Italian: “Chipata”
  • Japanese: “チパタ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಪಾಟಾ”
  • Korean: “치파타”
  • Kotava: “Chipata”
  • Latvian: “Čipata”
  • Lithuanian: “Čipata”
  • Malay: “Chipata”
  • Marathi: “चिपाता”
  • Moksha: “Чипата”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chipata”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chipata”
  • Norwegian: “Chipata”
  • Nyanja: “Chipata”
  • Polish: “Chipata”
  • Portuguese: “Chipata”
  • Romanian: “Chipata”
  • Russian: “Чипата”
  • Sinhala: “චිපාටා”
  • Slovak: “Chipata”
  • Slovenian: “Chipata”
  • Slovenian: “Fort Jameson”
  • Spanish: “Chipata (Fort Jameson)”
  • Spanish: “Chipata”
  • Spanish: “Chipatá”
  • Swahili: “Chipata”
  • Swedish: “Chipata”
  • Tamil: “சிபாடா”
  • Telugu: “చిపత”
  • Thai: “ชีปาตา”
  • Tumbuka: “Chipata”
  • Turkish: “Chipata”
  • Ukrainian: “Чипата”
  • Urdu: “چپاتا”
  • Vietnamese: “Chipata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chipata”
  • Western Mari: “Чипата”
  • Zulu: “Chipata”

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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 “Chipata”. Photo: CMusonda, CC BY-SA 4.0.