Fun fact 2 about Kolwezi
city
The settlement was created in 1938 to be the headquarters for the western mining group of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga.
Kolwezi
DR Congo
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Kolwezi
DR Congo
Country
DR Congo
Population
453.0K
Coordinates
-10.72, 25.47
Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It has an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. Just outside of Kolwezi there is the static inverter plant of the HVDC Inga-Shaba. The population is approximately 573,000.
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