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Lubumbashi (city)

Lubumbashi

Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the with a population of 1.8 million, and the principal city of the region.
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  • Type: City with 1,140,000 residents
  • Description: second largest city in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “Elisabethstad”, “Elisabethville”, and “Élisabethville”
  • Historically known as: “Elizabethville”
Photo: T. Thielemans, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade TP Mazembe and Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Lubumbashi.

Stadium
is a multi-use located in the Kamalondo suburb of Lubumbashi, . Since its completion in 2012, it has mostly been used for football matches and is the home venue of TP Mazembe and CS Don Bosco.

Church
Photo: Nick Hobgood, CC BY 2.0.
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Lubumbashi or simply Lubumbashi Cathedral, in the city of Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province in the , is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church and the seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.

Museum
Photo: Mike Rosenberg, CC BY 2.0.
The is a museum with core collections in archaeology and ethnography in Lubumbashi, in the . It was founded in 1946.

Lubumbashi

Latitude
-11.6642° or 11° 39′ 51″ south
Longitude
27.4826° or 27° 28′ 58″ east
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
1,260 metres (4,134 feet)
IATA airport code
FBM
United Nations Location Code
CD FBM
Open location code
5GW98FPM+83
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
922704
Wiki­data ID
Q187593
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lubumbashi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Elisabethstad”
  • Afrikaans: “Elisabethville”
  • Afrikaans: “Élisabethville”
  • Afrikaans: “Lubumbashi”
  • Albanian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Arabic: “لوبومباتشي”
  • Arabic: “لوبومباشي”
  • Armenian: “Լուբումբաշի”
  • Asturian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lubumbaşi”
  • Basque: “Elisabethville”
  • Basque: “Lubumbashi”
  • Belarusian: “Лубумбашы”
  • Belarusian: “Любумбашы”
  • Belarusian: “Элізабэтвіль”
  • Bengali: “লুবুমবাসি”
  • Bengali: “লুবুম্বাশি”
  • Bosnian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Breton: “Lubumbashi”
  • Bulgarian: “Лубумбаши”
  • Catalan: “Élisabethville”
  • Catalan: “Lubumbashi”
  • Cebuano: “Lubumbashi”
  • Chechen: “Лубумбаши”
  • Chinese: “卢本巴希”
  • Chinese: “盧本巴希”
  • Chinese: “羅彭巴布”
  • Croatian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Czech: “Lubumbashi”
  • Danish: “Elisabethville”
  • Danish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Dutch: “Elisabethstad”
  • Dutch: “Elizabethstad” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Eville”
  • Dutch: “Lubumbashi”
  • Dutch: “Lumbumbashi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوبومباشى”
  • Esperanto: “Lubumbashi”
  • Esperanto: “Lubumbaŝo”
  • Estonian: “Elisabethstad”
  • Estonian: “Elisabethville”
  • Estonian: “Élisabethville”
  • Estonian: “Elizabethville”
  • Estonian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Ewe: “Lubumbashi”
  • Finnish: “Elisabethstad”
  • Finnish: “Elisabethville”
  • Finnish: “Élisabethville”
  • Finnish: “Lubumbashi”
  • French: “E’ville”
  • French: “Elisabethstad”
  • French: “L’shi”
  • French: “Lubumbashi”
  • French: “Lushi”
  • French: “Lushois”
  • French: “Élisabethville” (historical)
  • Galician: “Elisabethstad”
  • Galician: “Élisabethville”
  • Galician: “Lubumbashi”
  • Georgian: “ლუბუმბაში”
  • German: “Elisabethstad”
  • German: “Elisabethville”
  • German: “Élisabethville”
  • German: “Lubumbashi”
  • Greek: “Λουμπουμπάσι”
  • Gujarati: “લુબુમબાશી”
  • Hausa: “Lubumbashi”
  • Hebrew: “לובומבאשי”
  • Hindi: “लुबुम्बाशी”
  • Hungarian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Icelandic: “Lubumbashi”
  • Indonesian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Irish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Italian: “Elisabethville”
  • Italian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Japanese: “エリザベートヴィル”
  • Japanese: “ルブンバシ”
  • Kannada: “ಲುಬುಂಬಾಷಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Лубумбаши қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лубумбаши”
  • Kirghiz: “Лубумбаши шаары”
  • Korean: “루붐바시 시”
  • Korean: “루붐바시”
  • Latin: “Lubumbashi”
  • Latvian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Latvian: “Lubumbaši”
  • Lingala: “Lubumbashi”
  • Lithuanian: “Elisabethville”
  • Lithuanian: “Elizabetvilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Lithuanian: “Lubumbašis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Elisabethville”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Macedonian: “Лубумбаши”
  • Malagasy: “Lubumbashi”
  • Malay: “Lubumbashi”
  • Marathi: “लुबुंबाशी”
  • Moksha: “Лубумбаши”
  • Mongolian: “Лубумбаши”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Élisabethville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lubumbashi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lubumbashi”
  • Norwegian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੂਬੁਮਬਾਸ਼ੀ”
  • Persian: “لوبومباشی”
  • Polish: “Elisabethville”
  • Polish: “Élisabethville”
  • Polish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Portuguese: “Elisabethville”
  • Portuguese: “Lubumbashi”
  • Romanian: “Elisabethville”
  • Romanian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Russian: “Лубумбаши”
  • Russian: “Элизабетвиль”
  • Scots: “Lubumbashi”
  • Serbian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Serbian: “Lubumbaši”
  • Serbian: “Ville de Lubumbashi”
  • Serbian: “Лубумбаши”
  • Serbian: “Лумумбаши”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Shona: “Lumumbashi”
  • Silesian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Sinhala: “ලුබුම්බාශි”
  • Sinhala: “ලුබුම්බාෂි”
  • Slovak: “Lubumbashi”
  • Slovenian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Spanish: “Elisabethstad”
  • Spanish: “Elisabethville”
  • Spanish: “Élisabethville”
  • Spanish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Swahili: “Lubumbashi”
  • Swedish: “Elisabethville”
  • Swedish: “Élisabethville”
  • Swedish: “Elizabethville”
  • Swedish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Tagalog: “Lubumbashi”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Lubumbashi”
  • Tajik: “Лубумбаши”
  • Tamil: “லுபூம்பாஷி”
  • Telugu: “లుబుంబాషి”
  • Thai: “ลูบุมบาชี”
  • Thai: “ลูบูมบาชี”
  • Turkish: “Lubumbashi”
  • Turkmen: “Lubumbaşi”
  • Tyap: “Elisabethville”
  • Tyap: “Élisabethville”
  • Tyap: “Lubumbashi”
  • Ukrainian: “Елізабетвіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Лубумбаші”
  • Urdu: “لوبمباشی”
  • Uzbek: “Lubumbashi”
  • Venetian: “Lubumbashi”
  • Vietnamese: “Lubumbashi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lubumbashi”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢本巴希”
  • Zulu: “Lubumbashi”

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