Zambia
Northern Plateau
Northern Province

Mpulungu

Mpulungu is a town in the of , at the southern tip of . From Mpulungu, boats reach DR Congo, and .
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  • Type: Town with 10,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Zambia
  • Also known as: “Mpolungu”

Mpulungu

Latitude
-8.7662° or 8° 45′ 58″ south
Longitude
31.1196° or 31° 7′ 11″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
800 metres (2,625 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZM MPU
Open location code
6G3H64M9+GR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254030320
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
175961
Wiki­data ID
Q1951400
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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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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 “Mpulungu”. Photo: Priscanawelwa, CC BY-SA 4.0.