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Mfuwe

Eastern Africa

Mfuwe is a settlement in the Mambwe District of Zambia's Eastern Province, about 100 kilometres northwest of Chipata, that serves as the main gateway to South Luangwa National Park and a center for the area's tourism and wildlife conservation economy. It has an airport with a 2.15 kilometre paved runway handling regional and international flights. Mfuwe holds Zambia's highest recorded temperature, 42.8 degrees Celsius, set on 26 October 2011, and in 1991 the surrounding area was the site of attacks by a maneless lion, known as the Man-Eater of Mfuwe, that killed six people before it was shot. No population figure for the settlement was given in the source consulted, so none is stated here.

Facts
Population
5000 1
Elevation (m)
535 2
Latitude
12.897222 degrees south 3
Longitude
31.927778 degrees east 3
Elevation Band
Highland 2
Coastal
No 4
Climate Zone
Tropical 5
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 6
Sources
1. OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap Nominatim place record
OpenStreetMapextratags: population
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"population": "5000"
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2. Opentopodata: Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation at the town coordinates
OpentopodataAPI answer, elevation field, band from the elevation
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"elevation": 535.0
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3. Mfuwe (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude -12.897222, longitude 31.927778
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4. Zambia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead, landlocked country
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is a landlocked country in Southern Africa
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5. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -12.75, 31.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -12.75, 31.75
-12.75 31.75 Aw
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6. Mfuwe (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: utc_offset
    +2
  • In Group: Cities of Eastern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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Wikidata: Mfuwe
Wikidata Q255008, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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