Zambia
Zambezi Basin
North-Western Province

Solwezi

Solwezi is in , and is the seat of the Northwestern Province of Zambia, a sprawling expanse of territory.
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Solwezi

Latitude
-12.1821° or 12° 10′ 55″ south
Longitude
26.3991° or 26° 23′ 57″ east
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
1,381 metres (4,531 feet)
IATA airport code
SLI
United Nations Location Code
ZM SLI
Open location code
5GV8R99X+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 488194396
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
897045
Wiki­data ID
Q871209
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Solwezi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Solwezi”
  • Arabic: “سولويزي”
  • Asturian: “Solwezi”
  • Belarusian: “Салвэзі”
  • Belarusian: “Солвезі”
  • Bulgarian: “Солуези”
  • Cebuano: “Solwezi (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Solwezi”
  • Chinese: “索卢韦齐”
  • Chinese: “索盧韋齊”
  • Croatian: “Solwezi”
  • Danish: “Solwezi”
  • Dutch: “Solwezi”
  • Finnish: “Solwezi”
  • French: “Solwezi”
  • German: “Solwezi”
  • Greek: “Σολουέζι”
  • Hebrew: “סולווזי”
  • Italian: “Solwezi”
  • Japanese: “ソルウェジ”
  • Korean: “솔웨지”
  • Lithuanian: “Solvezis”
  • Moksha: “Солвэзи”
  • Northern Frisian: “Solwezi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Solwesi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Solwezi”
  • Norwegian: “Solwesi”
  • Polish: “Solwezi”
  • Portuguese: “Solwezi”
  • Romanian: “Solwezi”
  • Russian: “Солвези”
  • Slovenian: “Solwezi”
  • Spanish: “Solwezi”
  • Swahili: “Solwezi”
  • Tumbuka: “Solwezi”
  • Turkish: “Solwezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Солвезі”
  • Urdu: “سولویزی”
  • Western Mari: “Солвези”
  • Zulu: “Solwezi”

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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 “Solwezi”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.