Livingstone

Livingstone is to what the town of Victoria Falls is to . Formerly known as Maramba, it was the capital of Zambia before it was moved to . Livingstone is in the Southern Province of Zambia and is the tourist capital of the country.
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  • Type: City with 137,000 residents
  • Description: city in Zambia
  • Also known as: Livingstone, Zambia” and “Livingstore

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Livingstone Museum and Linda Secondary School.

Museum
Photo: Vberger, Copyrighted free use.
, formerly the David Livingstone Memorial Museum and after that, the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, is the largest and the oldest museum in , located in Livingstone near .

School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a government school in Livingstone, Zambia. It was established in 1963. The school is about two kilometers south-east of the Livingstone city centre.

School
Hillcrest National STEM Secondary School is a Government High School running from Grade Eight to Grade Twelve. The school is located in Livingstone, , and was established in 1956.

Livingstone

Latitude
-17.8531° or 17° 51′ 11″ south
Longitude
25.8614° or 25° 51′ 41″ east
Population
137,000
Elevation
969 metres (3,179 feet)
IATA airport code
LVI
United Nations Location Codes
ZM LVI and ZM MRB
Open location code
5GJ74VW6+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 89085357
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
910111
Wiki­data ID
Q1866604
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Livingstone” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Livingstone
  • Arabic: لفنستون
  • Arabic: ليفينجستون
  • Arabic: ليفينغستون
  • Armenian: Լիվինգսթոն
  • Asturian: Livingstone (Zambia)
  • Asturian: Livingstone
  • Belarusian: Лівінгстан
  • Bengali: লিভংস্টোন
  • Bulgarian: Ливингстън
  • Bulgarian: Марамба
  • Catalan: Livingstone
  • Cebuano: Livingstone
  • Chinese: 利文斯敦
  • Chinese: 利文斯顿
  • Croatian: Livingstone
  • Croatian: Maramba
  • Czech: Livingstone
  • Danish: Livingstone
  • Dutch: Livingstone
  • Egyptian Arabic: ليفينجستون
  • Esperanto: Livingstone
  • Finnish: Livingstone
  • French: Livingstone
  • French: Maramba
  • Galician: Livingstone
  • German: Livingstone
  • German: Maramba
  • Greek: Λίβινγκστον
  • Gujarati: લિવિંગસ્ટોન
  • Hebrew: ליווינגסטון
  • Hindi: लिविंगस्टोन
  • Indonesian: Livingstone
  • Irish: Livingstone
  • Italian: Livingstone
  • Japanese: リヴィングストン (ザンビア)
  • Japanese: リヴィングストン
  • Kannada: ಲಿವಿಂಗ್ಸ್ಟೋನ್
  • Kirghiz: Ливингстон шаары
  • Korean: 리빙스턴
  • Korean: 마람바
  • Latvian: Livingstona
  • Lithuanian: Livingstonas
  • Lithuanian: Maramba
  • Macedonian: Ливингстон
  • Malay: Livingstone
  • Marathi: लिविंग्स्टोन
  • Moksha: Ливингстон
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Livingstone
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Maramba
  • Norwegian: Livingstone
  • Piemontese: Livingstone
  • Polish: Livingstone
  • Polish: Maramba
  • Portuguese: Livingstone, Zâmbia
  • Portuguese: Livingstone
  • Romanian: Livingstone (Zambia)
  • Romanian: Livingstone, zambia
  • Romanian: Livingstone, Zambia
  • Romanian: Livingstone
  • Russian: Ливингстон
  • Sinhala: ලිවින්ග්ස්ටෝන්
  • Slovak: Livingstone
  • Slovenian: Livingstone
  • Spanish: Livingstone
  • Swahili: Livingstone (mji)
  • Swahili: Livingstone (Zambia)
  • Swahili: Livingstone, Zambia
  • Swahili: Livingstone
  • Swedish: Livingstone (stad)
  • Swedish: Livingstone, Zambia
  • Swedish: Livingstone
  • Swedish: Maramba
  • Tamil: லிவிங்ஸ்டோன்
  • Telugu: లివింగ్స్టన్
  • Thai: ลิฟวิงสโตน
  • Tumbuka: Livingstone, Zambia
  • Tumbuka: Livingstone
  • Turkish: Livingstone, Zambiya
  • Turkish: Livingstone
  • Ukrainian: Лівінгстон
  • Ukrainian: Лівінґстон
  • Ukrainian: Марамба (Замбія)
  • Ukrainian: Марамба
  • Upper Sorbian: Livingstone
  • Urdu: لیونگسٹون، زیمبیا
  • Urdu: لیونگسٹون
  • Venetian: Livingstone
  • Vietnamese: Livingstone
  • Waray (Philippines): Livingstone
  • Western Frisian: Livingstone
  • Western Mari: Ливингстон (Замби)
  • Western Mari: Марамба
  • Zulu: Livingstone, Zambiya
  • Livingstone

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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 “Livingstone”. Photo: cowbridgeguide.co.uk, CC BY 3.0.