Kabwe
Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province and the Kabwe District, with a population estimated at 288,598 at the 2022 census. Named Broken Hill until 1966, it was founded when lead and zinc deposits were discovered in 1902.
- City with 118,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,191 metres (3,907 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code QKE
- …is also known as “Broken Hill”
- Description: city in central province of Zambia
Kabwe
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Latitude
-14.4434° or 14° 26′ 36″ south
Longitude
28.4465° or 28° 26′ 48″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZM QKE
Open location code
5GQCHC4W+JJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kabwe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kabwe”
- Amharic: “ካብዌ”
- Arabic: “كابوي”
- Armenian: “Կաբվե”
- Asturian: “Kabwe”
- Azerbaijani: “Kabwe”
- Belarusian: “Кабвэ”
- Bengali: “কাবওয়ে”
- Bulgarian: “Кабуе”
- Catalan: “Kabwe”
- Cebuano: “Kabwe”
- Chinese: “卡布韋”
- Chinese: “卡布韦”
- Croatian: “Kabwe”
- Czech: “Broken Hill”
- Czech: “Kabwe”
- Danish: “Kabwe”
- Dutch: “Kabwe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كابوى”
- Esperanto: “Kabwe”
- Estonian: “Kabwe”
- Finnish: “Kabwe”
- French: “Kabwe”
- Georgian: “კაბვე”
- German: “Broken Hill”
- German: “Kabwe”
- Greek: “Κάμπουε”
- Hausa: “Kabwe”
- Hebrew: “קבווה”
- Hindi: “कबवे”
- Indonesian: “Kabwe”
- Irish: “Kabwe”
- Italian: “Kabwe”
- Japanese: “カブウェ”
- Javanese: “Kabwe”
- Kazakh: “Кабве”
- Kirghiz: “Кабве”
- Korean: “카브웨”
- Kotava: “Kabwe”
- Lithuanian: “Kabvė”
- Malay: “Kabwe”
- Moksha: “Кабвэ”
- Northern Frisian: “Kabwe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kabwe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabwe-Ka Mukuba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabwe”
- Norwegian: “Kabwe”
- Oromo: “Kabwe”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਬਵੇ”
- Persian: “کابوه”
- Persian: “کابووی”
- Polish: “Kabwe”
- Portuguese: “Kabwe”
- Pushto: “کابوی”
- Romanian: “Kabwe”
- Russian: “Брокен-Хилл”
- Russian: “Кабве”
- Silesian: “Kabwe”
- Slovak: “Kabwe”
- Somali: “Kabwe”
- South Azerbaijani: “کابووی”
- Spanish: “Kabwe”
- Swahili: “Kabwe, Zambia”
- Swahili: “Kabwe”
- Swedish: “Kabwe”
- Tagalog: “Kabwe”
- Tajik: “Кабве”
- Tatar: “Кабве”
- Turkish: “Kabwe”
- Ukrainian: “Брокен Хілл”
- Ukrainian: “Кабве”
- Urdu: “کابوے”
- Uzbek: “Kabve”
- Uzbek: “Kabwe”
- Venetian: “Kabwe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kabwe”
- Western Mari: “Кабве”
- Zulu: “Kabwe”
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