Kapiri Mposhi
Kapiri Mposhi is a Zambian town and the seat of the Kapiri Mposhi District in Central Province. Located north of Lusaka, it stands on the Great North Road and is significant for the railway connection between the Zambia Railways line from Kitwe to Lusaka and the western terminus of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority from Dar es Salaam since 1976.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Stupart, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: in Kapiri Mposhi District
- Also known as: “Kapiri Imposhi”
Kapiri Mposhi
- Categories: human settlement, ward of Zambia, and locality
- Location: Central Province, Central Zambia, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-13.9695° or 13° 58′ 10″ southLongitude
28.6788° or 28° 40′ 44″ eastPopulation
14,800Elevation
1,265 metres (4,150 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZM KAMOpen location code
5GRC2MJH+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 776377628OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kapiri Mposhi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Arabic: “كابيري مبوشي”
- Bulgarian: “Капири Мпоши”
- Catalan: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Cebuano: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Chinese: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Chinese: “卡皮里姆波希”
- Czech: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Dutch: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كابيرى مبوشى”
- Esperanto: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Finnish: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- French: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Fulah: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- German: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Hebrew: “קפירי מפושי”
- Italian: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Japanese: “カピリ・ムポシ”
- Japanese: “カピリムポシ”
- Korean: “카피리 음포시”
- Korean: “카피리음포시”
- Kotava: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Lithuanian: “Kapiri Mpoši”
- Lithuanian: “Kapiri Mpošis”
- Moksha: “Капири Мпоши”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Norwegian: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Persian: “کاپیری امپوشی”
- Polish: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Polish: “Kapiri-Mposhi”
- Portuguese: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Romanian: “Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia”
- Romanian: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Russian: “Капири-Мпоши”
- Spanish: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Swahili: “Kapiri Mposhi”
- Ukrainian: “Капірі-Мпоші”
- Western Mari: “Капири Мпоши”
- Zulu: “Kapiri Mposhi”
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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 “Kapiri Mposhi”. Photo: Richard Stupart, CC BY 2.0.