Zambia
Central Zambia
Lusaka Province

Lusaka

Lusaka, in Lusaka Province, is the capital of . It is a cosmopolitan city that is home to about 2.7 million people, approximately one in six Zambians. Lusaka is the centre of commerce and government in Zambia, and has several cultural facilities.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lusaka National Museum and FINDECO House.

Museum
The is a museum located in Lusaka, , covering the history and culture of the nation.

Office building
Photo: Mgrollne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a skyscraper in Lusaka, , and is the country's tallest building. Situated at the junction of Independence Avenue and Cairo Road in the heart of the city's Central Business District, the 295-feet building was built between 1978 and 1979 following the design of Yugoslav architects Dušan Milenković and Branimir Ganović.

School
The , also known as The Kamwala High School is a high school located in Lusaka, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ridgeway.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the city of Lusaka, the capital of .

Lusaka

Latitude
-15.4163° or 15° 24′ 59″ south
Longitude
28.2818° or 28° 16′ 55″ east
Population
1,740,000
Elevation
1,277 metres (4,190 feet)
IATA airport code
LUN
United Nations Location Code
ZM LUN
Open location code
5GPCH7MJ+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564994
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
909137
Wiki­data ID
Q3881
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lusaka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lusaka”
  • Albanian: “Lusaka”
  • Amharic: “ሉሳካ”
  • Arabic: “لوساكا”
  • Aragonese: “Lusaka”
  • Armenian: “Լուսակա”
  • Arpitan: “Lusaka”
  • Asturian: “Lusaka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lusaka”
  • Balinese: “Lusaka”
  • Bashkir: “Лусака”
  • Basque: “Lusaka”
  • Belarusian: “Лусака”
  • Bengali: “লুসাকা”
  • Bosnian: “Lusaka”
  • Breton: “Lusaka”
  • Bulgarian: “Лусака”
  • Catalan: “Lusaka”
  • Cebuano: “Lusaka”
  • Central Kanuri: “Lusaka”
  • Central Kurdish: “لووساکا”
  • Chechen: “Лусака”
  • Chinese: “Lusaka”
  • Chinese: “卢萨卡”
  • Chinese: “盧薩卡”
  • Chinese: “路沙卡”
  • Cornish: “Lusaka”
  • Croatian: “Lusaka”
  • Czech: “Lusaka”
  • Danish: “Lusaka”
  • Dutch: “Lusaka”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лусака”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوساكا”
  • Esperanto: “Lusako”
  • Estonian: “Lusaka”
  • Extremaduran: “Lusaka”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lusaka”
  • Finnish: “Lusaka”
  • French: “Lusaka”
  • Galician: “Lusaca”
  • Georgian: “ლუსაკა”
  • German: “Lusaka”
  • Greek: “Λουσάκα”
  • Gujarati: “લુસાકા”
  • Haitian: “Louzaka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lusaka”
  • Hausa: “Lusaka”
  • Hebrew: “לוסקה”
  • Hindi: “लुसाका”
  • Hungarian: “Lusaka”
  • Icelandic: “Lúsaka”
  • Ido: “Lusaka”
  • Inari Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Indonesian: “Lusaka”
  • Interlingua: “Lusaka”
  • Interlingue: “Lusaka”
  • Irish: “Lusaka”
  • Italian: “Lusaka”
  • Japanese: “ルサカ”
  • Javanese: “Lusaka”
  • Kabiyè: “Lusakaaa”
  • Kabiyè: “Luzakaaa”
  • Kabyle: “Lusaka”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Lusaka”
  • Kannada: “ಲುಸಾಕಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Лусака қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Лусака”
  • Kildin Sami: “Лусака”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lusaka”
  • Kirghiz: “Лусака”
  • Kongo: “Lusaka”
  • Korean: “루사카”
  • Kotava: “Lusaka”
  • Latin: “Lusaca”
  • Latin: “Lusaka”
  • Latvian: “Lusaka”
  • Ligurian: “Lusaka”
  • Lingala: “Lusaka”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lusaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Lusaka”
  • Lombard: “Lusaka”
  • Lule Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lusaka”
  • Macedonian: “Лусака”
  • Malagasy: “Lusaka”
  • Malay: “Lusaka”
  • Malayalam: “ലുസാക്ക”
  • Manx: “Lusaka”
  • Marathi: “लुसाका”
  • Mazanderani: “لوساکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lusaka”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lusaka”
  • Minangkabau: “Lusaka”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუსაკა”
  • Moksha: “Лусака”
  • Mongolian: “Лусака”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لوصاكا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lusaka”
  • Northern Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lusaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lusaka”
  • Norwegian: “Lusaka”
  • Novial: “Lusaka”
  • Nyanja: “Lusaka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lusaka”
  • Oriya: “ଲୁସାକ”
  • Ossetian: “Лусакæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੁਸਾਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Lusaka”
  • Persian: “لوساکا”
  • Piemontese: “Lusaka”
  • Pite Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Polish: “Lusaka”
  • Portuguese: “Lusaca”
  • Portuguese: “Lusaka”
  • Pushto: “لوساکا”
  • Quechua: “Lusaka”
  • Romanian: “Lusaka”
  • Russian: “Лусака”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱩᱥᱟᱠᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Lusaka”
  • Scots: “Lusaka”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lusaka”
  • Serbian: “Лусака”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lusaka”
  • Shona: “Lusaka”
  • Silesian: “Lusaka”
  • Sindhi: “لوساڪا”
  • Sinhala: “ලුසාකා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Slovak: “Lusaka”
  • Slovenian: “Lusaka”
  • Somali: “Lusaka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوساکا”
  • Southern Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Spanish: “Lusaka”
  • Swahili: “Lusaka”
  • Swati: “Lusaka”
  • Swedish: “Lusaka”
  • Tagalog: “Lusaka”
  • Tajik: “Лусака”
  • Tamil: “லுசாக்கா”
  • Tamil: “லுஸாகா”
  • Telugu: “లుసాకా”
  • Thai: “ลูซากา”
  • Tibetan: “ལུ་ས་ཀ།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Lusaka”
  • Tumbuka: “Lusaka”
  • Turkish: “Lusaka”
  • Turkmen: “Lusaka”
  • Udmurt: “Лусака”
  • Uighur: “لۇساكا”
  • Ukrainian: “Лусака”
  • Ume Sami: “Lusaka”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lusaka”
  • Urdu: “لوساکا”
  • Uzbek: “Lusaka”
  • Venetian: “Lusaka”
  • Veps: “Lusak”
  • Vietnamese: “Lusaka”
  • Vlaams: “Lusaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lusaka”
  • Welsh: “Lusaka”
  • Western Frisian: “Lûsaka”
  • Western Mari: “Лусака”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوساکا”
  • Wolof: “Lusaka”
  • Wu Chinese: “盧薩卡”
  • Yiddish: “לוסאקא”
  • Yoruba: “Lusaka”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧薩卡”
  • Zulu: “i-Lusaka”
  • Zulu: “Lusaka”
  • “Lusaka”
  • “Teŋɛ ko Zambia”

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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 “Lusaka”. Photo: Mondoka Zambia, CC BY-SA 4.0.