Local time
Mon, 5:31 PM GMT+2Africa/LusakaCity
Kitwe
12.81° S, 28.22° E
- Population
- 404,901
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 2 of 15
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 15 cities of Zambia in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Zambia, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1936
- 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
- 1,200 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Copperbelt 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.
- Time zone
- Africa/Lusaka
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Kitwe, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Kitwe have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Connections
Sister cities
- Baia Mare
- Detroit
- Ponta Grossa
- Sheffield
- and 1 more