Likasi
Likasi is a city of 630,000 inhabitants in Katanga. The city is full of hills, hence the name Likasi ya Bilima, Likasi of the hills. Its highest point, Karajipopo in the commune of Panda, is 1,427 m.
Photo: Humansdorpie, Public domain.- Type: City with 636,000 residents
- Description: town in the Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Also known as: “Ville de Likasi”, “Žadovilis”, “Јадовил”, “Лукаси”, and “雅多維爾”
- Historically known as: “Jadotsville” and “Jadotville”
Likasi
- Categories: big city, official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and locality
- Location: Likasi, Haut-Katanga, Katanga, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-10.9892° or 10° 59′ 21″ south
Longitude
26.7397° or 26° 44′ 23″ east
Population
636,000
Elevation
1,288 metres (4,226 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CD LKS
Open location code
5GX82P6Q+8V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Likasi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Likasi”
- Arabic: “ليكاسي”
- Armenian: “Լիկասի”
- Asturian: “Likasi”
- Belarusian: “Лікасі”
- Bengali: “লিকাসি”
- Catalan: “Likasi”
- Cebuano: “Likasi”
- Chinese: “利卡西”
- Croatian: “Likasi”
- Czech: “Likasi”
- Danish: “Likasi”
- Dutch: “Jadotstad”
- Dutch: “Likasi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليكاسى”
- Esperanto: “Likasi”
- Estonian: “Likasi”
- Finnish: “Likasi”
- French: “Likasi”
- French: “Jadotsville” (historical)
- Galician: “Likasi”
- Georgian: “ლიკასი”
- German: “Likasi”
- Greek: “Λικάσι”
- Gujarati: “લિકાસી”
- Hebrew: “ליקאסי”
- Hindi: “लिकासी”
- Hungarian: “Likasi”
- Indonesian: “Likasi”
- Irish: “Likasi”
- Italian: “Likasi”
- Japanese: “リカシ”
- Kannada: “ಲೈಕಾಸಿ”
- Korean: “리카시”
- Latvian: “Likasi”
- Lingala: “Likasi”
- Lithuanian: “Likasis”
- Luba-Lulua: “Likasi”
- Malay: “Likasi”
- Marathi: “लिकासी”
- Mingrelian: “ლიკასი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Likasi”
- Norwegian: “Likasi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Likasi”
- Persian: “لیکاسی”
- Polish: “Likasi”
- Portuguese: “Likasi”
- Romanian: “Likasi”
- Russian: “Ликаси”
- Serbian: “Ликаси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Likasi”
- Sinhala: “ලිකසි”
- Spanish: “Likasi”
- Swahili: “Likasi”
- Swedish: “Likasi”
- Tagalog: “Likasi”
- Tajik: “Ликаси”
- Tamil: “லிகாசி”
- Telugu: “లికాసి”
- Thai: “ลิคาชิ”
- Turkish: “Likasi”
- Ukrainian: “Лікасі”
- Urdu: “لیکاسی”
- Uzbek: “Likasi”
- Venetian: “Likasi”
- Vietnamese: “Likasi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Likasi”
- Zulu: “Likasi”
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