Kitwe

Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development and second largest city in terms of size and population in . With a population of 661,901 as of the 2022 census, Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside and .
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  • Type: City with 522,000 residents
  • Description: city in Zambia
  • Also known as: “Kitvė-Nkana”, “Kitwe Nkana”, “Kitwe-Nkana”, “Nkana-Kitwe”, “キツウェ”, and “基特韦-恩卡纳”

Kitwe

Latitude
-12.8204° or 12° 49′ 13″ south
Longitude
28.2156° or 28° 12′ 56″ east
Population
522,000
Elevation
1,224 metres (4,016 feet)
IATA airport code
KIW
UN/LOCODE
ZM KIW
Open location code
5GVC56H8+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1164704713
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
911148
Wiki­data ID
Q239580
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kitwe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kitwe”
  • Arabic: “كيتوي”
  • Armenian: “Կիտվե-Նկանա”
  • Asturian: “Kitwe”
  • Bavarian: “Kitwe”
  • Belarusian: “Кітвэ”
  • Bengali: “কিটওয়ে”
  • Bulgarian: “Китуе”
  • Catalan: “Kitwe”
  • Cebuano: “Kitwe”
  • Chinese: “基特韋”
  • Chinese: “基特韦”
  • Croatian: “Kitwe”
  • Czech: “Kitwe”
  • Danish: “Kitwe”
  • Dutch: “Kitwe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “کیتو”
  • Esperanto: “Kitwe”
  • Estonian: “Kitwe”
  • Finnish: “Kitwe”
  • French: “Kitwe”
  • Georgian: “კიტვე”
  • German: “Kitwe”
  • Greek: “Κίτουε”
  • Gujarati: “કિટવે”
  • Hausa: “Kitwe”
  • Hebrew: “קיטווה”
  • Hindi: “किटवे”
  • Hungarian: “Kitwe”
  • Indonesian: “Kitwe”
  • Irish: “Kitwe”
  • Italian: “Kitwe”
  • Japanese: “キトウェ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಟ್ವೆ”
  • Korean: “키트웨”
  • Kotava: “Kitwe”
  • Latvian: “Kitve”
  • Lithuanian: “Kitvė”
  • Macedonian: “Китве”
  • Malay: “Kitwe”
  • Marathi: “किटवे”
  • Moksha: “Китвэ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitwe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kitwe”
  • Norwegian: “Kitwe”
  • Persian: “کیتو”
  • Polish: “Kitwe”
  • Portuguese: “Kitwe”
  • Romanian: “Kitwe, Zambia”
  • Romanian: “Kitwe”
  • Russian: “Китве-Нкана”
  • Russian: “Китве”
  • Scots: “Kitwe”
  • Serbian: “Китве”
  • Sinhala: “කිට්වේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیتو”
  • Spanish: “Kitwe”
  • Swahili: “Kitwe”
  • Swedish: “Kitwe”
  • Tagalog: “Kitwe”
  • Tamil: “கிட்வெ”
  • Telugu: “కిట్వే”
  • Thai: “คิตเว่”
  • Tumbuka: “Kitwe”
  • Turkish: “Kitwe”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітве-Нкана”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітве”
  • Urdu: “کتوے”
  • Venetian: “Kitwe”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitwe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kitwe”
  • Welsh: “Kitwe”
  • Western Mari: “Китве”
  • Zulu: “Kitwe”
  • “Kitwe”

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