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Likasi

Likasi

Likasi is a city of 630,000 inhabitants in . 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.
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  • Type: City with 636,000 residents
  • Description: town in the Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Historically known as: “Jadotsville” and “Jadotville”

Likasi

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)
United Nations Location Code
CD LKS
Open location code
5GX82P6Q+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435789385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
922741
Wiki­data ID
Q18780
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Chinese: “雅多維爾”
  • Croatian: “Likasi”
  • Czech: “Likasi”
  • Danish: “Likasi”
  • Dutch: “Jadotstad”
  • Dutch: “Jadotville”
  • 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: “Jadotstad”
  • Hungarian: “Jadotville”
  • Hungarian: “Likasi”
  • Indonesian: “Likasi”
  • Irish: “Jadotstad”
  • Irish: “Likasi”
  • Italian: “Jadotville”
  • Italian: “Likasi”
  • Japanese: “リカシ”
  • Kannada: “ಲೈಕಾಸಿ”
  • Korean: “리카시”
  • Latvian: “Likasi”
  • Lingala: “Likasi”
  • Lithuanian: “Likasis”
  • Lithuanian: “Žadovilis”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Likasi”
  • Malay: “Likasi”
  • Marathi: “लिकासी”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიკასი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jadotstad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jadotville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Likasi”
  • Norwegian: “Likasi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Likasi”
  • Persian: “لیکاسی”
  • Polish: “Jadotville”
  • Polish: “Likasi”
  • Portuguese: “Likasi”
  • Romanian: “Likasi”
  • Russian: “Ликаси”
  • Serbian: “Ville de Likasi”
  • Serbian: “Јадовил”
  • Serbian: “Ликаси”
  • Serbian: “Лукаси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Likasi”
  • Sinhala: “ලිකසි”
  • Spanish: “Likasi”
  • Swahili: “Likasi”
  • Swedish: “Likasi”
  • Tagalog: “Likasi”
  • 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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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 “Likasi”. Photo: Humansdorpie, Public domain.