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| 1 | Likasi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1288 Lat/Lng : -10.983 / 26.7384 | Likasi (formerly official names: Jadotville (French) and Jadotstad (Dutch)) is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (...) | |
| 2 | Lufira River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 562 Lat/Lng : -8.266 / 26.4903 | The Lufira River is a tributary of the Lualaba River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Lufira rises in the Shaba plateau south of Likasi. The river was dammed in 1926 at Mwadingusha near Likasi to form Lake Tshangalele, a reservoir for a hydroelectric generator supplying power for (...) | |
| 3 | Haut-Katanga Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1214 Lat/Lng : -11.6697 / 27.4581 | Haut-Katanga is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Specified under Article 2 of the country's 2006 Constitution, the new province was finally created in 2015 from Haut-Katanga District and the independently administered cities of Lubumbashi and Likasi, all previously (...) | |
| 4 | Katanga Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1172 Lat/Lng : -11.1411 / 27.1047 | Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaïre), its official name (...) | |
| 5 | Shinkolobwe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1410 Lat/Lng : -11.055 / 26.5473 | Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, is a radium and uranium mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located 20 km west of Likasi, 20 km south of Kambove, and about 145 km northwest of Lubumbashi (...) | |
| 6 | Panda, Likasi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1276 Lat/Lng : -11.0186 / 26.7353 | Panda is a commune of the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| 7 | Kolwezi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1496 Lat/Lng : -10.7167 / 25.4667 | Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It is home to an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. The population is approximately 453,000. (...) | |
| 8 | Zaire ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 284 Lat/Lng : -4.4 / 15.4 | Zaire , officially the Republic of Zaire , was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa. The country was a one-party totalitarian dictatorship, run by Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution party (...) | |
| 9 | Likasi (commune) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1293 Lat/Lng : -10.9833 / 26.7333 | Likasi is a commune of the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| 10 | Copperbelt ![]() FeatureType : forest Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : -12.0 / 28.0 | The Copperbelt is a natural region in Central Africa which sits on the border region between northern Zambia and the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is known for copper mining. Traditionally, the term Copperbelt includes the mining regions of Zambia's Copperbelt Province (notably the towns (...) | |
| 11 | Kikula ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1308 Lat/Lng : -10.9735 / 26.7197 | Kikula is a commune of the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| 12 | Haut-Katanga District ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 1222 Lat/Lng : -11.6667 / 27.4667 | Haut-Katanga District (Upper Katanga District) is a district located in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The copper mining centers of Lubumbashi and Likasi are surrounded by the district but are administratively separate. (...) | |
| 13 | Panda (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1466 Lat/Lng : -14.3667 / 16.2833 | The giant panda is an animal in the bear family (Ursidae). Panda or Panda bear may also refer to: (...) | |
| 14 | National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 291 Lat/Lng : -4.3322 / 15.3031 | The National Assembly is the lower house and main legislative political body of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established by the 2006 constitution. It is located at the People's Palace in Kinshasa. (...) | |
| 15 | Kamatanda Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1320 Lat/Lng : -10.8917 / 26.7444 | Kamatanda Airport is an abandoned airport near the town of Likasi in Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 16 | Shituru ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1272 Lat/Lng : -11.0167 / 26.7667 | Shituru is a town that is now part of the city of Likasi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also the location of a copper mine, smelter and hydrometallurgical plant that was operated by the state-owned Gécamines (...) | |
| 17 | Lake Tshangalele ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1123 Lat/Lng : -10.8603 / 27.0428 | Lake Tshangalele, also known as Lake Lufira or Mwadingusha Reservoir, is an artificial lake in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is located about 20 km east of the city of Likasi in the old province of Katanga (...) | |
| 18 | Mwadingusha ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1136 Lat/Lng : -10.7522 / 27.2354 | Mwadingusha is a community in the Kambove Territory of Haut Katanga District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (...) | |
| 19 | Kalukundi Mine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1409 Lat/Lng : -10.6232 / 25.8998 | Kalukundi Mine is a copper and cobalt mine being developed in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by Africo Resources, a Canadian company. In September 2008 the company estimated the value of the resource as $1.47 billion. (...) | |
| 20 | Tshituru ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1244 Lat/Lng : -11.0006 / 26.7569 | Tshituru is a commune of the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |