Kazungula
Kazungula is a small border town on the northern banks of the mighty river Zambezi in Zambia. It marks Zambia's border with three other countries: Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, and is a unique place where four national borders meet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,100 residents
- Description: human settlement in Zambia
- Also known as: “Kasungula” and “Kasungulu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kazungula Bridge.
Kazungula Bridge
Bridge
Photo: JonGT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kazungula Bridge is a road and rail bridge over the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Botswana at the town of Kazungula. The 923-metre-long and 18.5-metre-wide bridge, which has a longest span of 129 metres, links the town of Kazungula in Zambia with Botswana.
Kazungula
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Southern Province, Zambezi Basin, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.7878° or 17° 47′ 16″ southLongitude
25.276° or 25° 16′ 34″ eastPopulation
12,100Elevation
931 metres (3,054 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZM KZGOpen location code
5GJ7676G+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2605139633OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Kazungula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kazungula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kazungula”
- Armenian: “Կազունգուլա”
- Bulgarian: “Казунгула”
- Chinese: “卡宗古拉”
- Czech: “Kazungula”
- Dutch: “Kazungula”
- Finnish: “Kazungula”
- French: “Kazungula”
- German: “Kazungula”
- Hebrew: “קזונגולה”
- Irish: “Kazungula”
- Italian: “Kazungula”
- Japanese: “カズングラ”
- Korean: “카중굴라”
- Polish: “Kazungula”
- Portuguese: “Kazungula”
- Russian: “Казунгула”
- Slovenian: “Kazungula”
- Swedish: “Kazungula, Zambia”
- Swedish: “Kazungula”
- Ukrainian: “Казунгула”
- Western Mari: “Казунгула”
- Zulu: “Kazungula, Zambiya”
- Zulu: “Kazungula”
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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 “Kazungula”. Photo: JonGT, CC BY-SA 4.0.