Zambia
Zambezi Basin
Western Province

Mongu

Mongu is the capital of in and was the capital of the formerly-named province and historic state of Barotseland. Its population is 179,585, and it is also the headquarters of .
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  • Type: Town with 180,000 residents
  • Description: city in Western Zambia
  • Also known as: “Mungu”

Mongu

Latitude
-15.2669° or 15° 16′ 1″ south
Longitude
23.1365° or 23° 8′ 12″ east
Population
180,000
Elevation
1,016 metres (3,333 feet)
IATA airport code
MNR
United Nations Location Code
ZM MNR
Open location code
5GP5P4MP+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 560852878
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
906054
Wiki­data ID
Q644799
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mongu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mongu”
  • Arabic: “مونغو”
  • Armenian: “Մոնգու”
  • Asturian: “Mongu”
  • Belarusian: “Мангу”
  • Bulgarian: “Монгу”
  • Catalan: “Mongu”
  • Cebuano: “Mongu”
  • Chinese: “芒古”
  • Croatian: “Mongu”
  • Danish: “Mongu”
  • Dutch: “Mongu”
  • Finnish: “Mongu”
  • French: “Mongu”
  • German: “Mongu”
  • Greek: “Μόνγκου”
  • Hebrew: “מונגו”
  • Italian: “Mongu”
  • Japanese: “モング”
  • Korean: “몽구”
  • Lithuanian: “Mongu”
  • Moksha: “Монгу”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mongu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mongu”
  • Polish: “Mongu”
  • Portuguese: “Mongu”
  • Romanian: “Mongu”
  • Russian: “Монгу”
  • Slovenian: “Mongu”
  • Spanish: “Mongu”
  • Swahili: “Mongu”
  • Turkish: “Mongu”
  • Ukrainian: “Монгу”
  • Urdu: “مونگو”
  • Western Mari: “Монгу”
  • Zulu: “Mongu”

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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 Wikipedia page “Mongu”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.