Mpulungu
Mpulungu is a town in the Northern Province of Zambia, at the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika. From Mpulungu, boats reach DR Congo, Tanzania and Burundi.
- Town with 10,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 800 metres (2,625 feet)
- …is also known as “Mpolungu”
- Description: human settlement in Zambia
Mpulungu
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-8.7662° or 8° 45′ 58″ south
Longitude
31.1196° or 31° 7′ 11″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZM MPU
Open location code
6G3H64M9+GR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mpulungu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mpulungu”
- Cebuano: “Mpulungu”
- Chinese: “姆普隆古”
- Danish: “Mpulungu”
- Dutch: “Mpulungu”
- Finnish: “Mpulungu”
- French: “Mpulungu”
- German: “Mpulungu”
- Hebrew: “מפולונגו”
- Irish: “Mpulungu”
- Italian: “Mpulungu”
- Japanese: “ムプルング”
- Moksha: “Мпулунгу”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mpulungu”
- Polish: “Mpulungu”
- Portuguese: “Mpulungu”
- Romanian: “Mpulungu”
- Spanish: “Mpulungu”
- Swedish: “Mpulungu”
- Ukrainian: “Мпулунґу”
- Western Mari: “Мпулунгу”
- Zulu: “Mpulungu”
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