Mufulira is a town in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia and the administrative capital of Mufulira District. Its name is given as meaning Place of Abundance and Peace. The town developed around the Mufulira Copper Mine in the 1930s, so its history is tied closely to copper mining in the province. Recorded population figures show a town of some 123,936 people in 1990 and 122,336 in 2000, and the 2010 population census and household survey enumerated 151,309 residents. Mufulira sits at an elevation of about 4,180 feet above mean sea level.
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1. Mufulira (Wikipedia)
Population section
enumerated the population of the town at 151,309
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The town developed around the Mufulira Copper Mine in the 1930s.
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4180
On Continent: Africa, Lead, first sentence
Mufulira is a town in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia.
Part Of: Zambia, Lead, first sentence
Mufulira is a town in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia.
View the Source2. Zambia (Wikipedia)
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is a landlocked country in Southern Africa
3. 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, 28.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -12.75, 28.25
-12.75 28.25 Cwa
4. GeoNames: Mufulira - GeoNames
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-12.54982 28.24071 P PPL ZM 08 169136 1285 Africa/Lusaka
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