Zambia
Central Zambia
Central Province

Kabwe

Kabwe is the capital of the and the , 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.
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  • Type: City with 118,000 residents
  • Description: city in central province of Zambia
  • Also known as: “Broken Hill”

Kabwe

Latitude
-14.4434° or 14° 26′ 36″ south
Longitude
28.4465° or 28° 26′ 48″ east
Population
118,000
Elevation
1,191 metres (3,907 feet)
IATA airport code
QKE
United Nations Location Code
ZM QKE
Open location code
5GQCHC4W+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 918274948
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
916095
Wiki­data ID
Q216902
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kabwe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kabwe”
  • Arabic: “كابوي”
  • Armenian: “Կաբվե”
  • Asturian: “Kabwe”
  • Belarusian: “Кабвэ”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “קבווה”
  • Irish: “Kabwe”
  • Italian: “Kabwe”
  • Japanese: “カブウェ”
  • Korean: “카브웨”
  • Kotava: “Kabwe”
  • Lithuanian: “Kabvė”
  • Moksha: “Кабвэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kabwe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kabwe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabwe-Ka Mukuba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabwe”
  • Norwegian: “Kabwe”
  • Persian: “کابووی”
  • Polish: “Kabwe”
  • Portuguese: “Kabwe”
  • Romanian: “Kabwe”
  • Russian: “Брокен-Хилл”
  • Russian: “Кабве”
  • Silesian: “Kabwe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کابووی”
  • Spanish: “Kabwe”
  • Swahili: “Kabwe, Zambia”
  • Swahili: “Kabwe”
  • Swedish: “Kabwe”
  • Tagalog: “Kabwe”
  • Turkish: “Kabwe”
  • Ukrainian: “Брокен Хілл”
  • Ukrainian: “Кабве”
  • Urdu: “کابوے”
  • Uzbek: “Kabve”
  • Venetian: “Kabwe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kabwe”
  • Western Mari: “Кабве”
  • Zulu: “Kabwe”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kabwe”. Photo: Flacourtophile, CC BY-SA 4.0.