Kalemie
Kalemie, formerly Albertville or Albertstad, is a city on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lukuga River, that drains Lake Tanganyika to the Lualaba River, runs through the city.
- Type: City with 355,000 residents
- Description: ville de la République démocratique du Congo
- Also known as: “Kalémié”
- Historically known as: “Albertstad” and “Albertville”
Kalemie
Latitude
-5.946° or 5° 56′ 46″ south
Longitude
29.1967° or 29° 11′ 48″ east
Population
355,000
Elevation
787 metres (2,582 feet)
IATA airport code
FMI
United Nations Location Code
CD FMI
Open location code
6G6F353W+HM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kalemie” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kalemie”
- Arabic: “كاليمي”
- Asturian: “Kalemie”
- Belarusian: “Калэміе”
- Bengali: “Kalemie”
- Bengali: “কালেমি”
- Catalan: “Kalemie”
- Cebuano: “Kalemie”
- Chinese: “卡莱米”
- Chinese: “卡萊米”
- Croatian: “Kalemie”
- Danish: “Kalemie”
- Dutch: “Albertstad”
- Dutch: “Kalemie”
- Dutch: “Kalemié”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاليمى”
- Esperanto: “Kalemie”
- Finnish: “Kalemie”
- French: “Kalemie”
- French: “Kalémie”
- Galician: “Kalemie”
- Georgian: “კალემიე”
- German: “Kalemie”
- Greek: “Kalemie”
- Greek: “Καλέμιε”
- Gujarati: “કાલેમી”
- Hindi: “कलेमी”
- Hungarian: “Kalemie”
- Indonesian: “Kalemie”
- Italian: “Kalemie”
- Japanese: “カレミ”
- Kannada: “ಕಲೆಮಿ”
- Kongo: “Albertville”
- Kongo: “Kalemie”
- Korean: “알베르빌”
- Korean: “칼레미”
- Korean: “칼레미에”
- Latvian: “Kalemie”
- Latvian: “Kalemije”
- Lingala: “AlbertVille”
- Lingala: “Kalemie”
- Lithuanian: “Kalemijė”
- Luba-Lulua: “Albertville”
- Luba-Lulua: “Kalemie”
- Malay: “Kalemie”
- Marathi: “कालेमी”
- Mingrelian: “კალემიე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalemie”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albertstad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalemie”
- Norwegian: “Kalemie”
- Persian: “کالمیا”
- Polish: “Kalemia”
- Polish: “Kalemie”
- Portuguese: “Kalemie”
- Romanian: “Kalemie”
- Russian: “Калеми”
- Russian: “Калемие”
- Serbian: “Kalemi”
- Serbian: “Kalemie”
- Serbian: “Калеми”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalemie”
- Sinhala: “කාලෙමි”
- Slovenian: “Kalemie”
- South Azerbaijani: “کالمیا”
- Spanish: “Kalemie”
- Swahili: “Kalemie”
- Swedish: “Kalemi”
- Swedish: “Kalemie”
- Tagalog: “Kalemie”
- Tamil: “க்ளேமியே”
- Telugu: “కలేమి”
- Thai: “คาเลมี่”
- Turkish: “Kalemie”
- Ukrainian: “Калеміє”
- Urdu: “کالیمیی”
- Vietnamese: “Kalemie”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kalemie”
- Zulu: “Kalemie”
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