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Lubumbashi
11.68° S, 27.48° E
- Population
- 1,352,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 45
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 45 cities of Democratic Republic of the Congo in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Democratic Republic of the Congo, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1910
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 1,208 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 747 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Haut-Katanga Province
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Patrice Lumumba
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Africa/Lubumbashi
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Practical bearings for Lubumbashi, from the same records as the rest of this page.
Country
Democratic Republic of the CongoCountry profileOn the ground
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