Likasi
Sign in to saveLikasi (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.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Likasi
- Settlement.official_name
- Ville de Likasi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_caption
- Street in Likasi.
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- right
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- Location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Country
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- 25px DR Congo
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Haut-Katanga Province
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- Communes
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- para
- Settlement.p1
- Kikula
- Settlement.p2
- Likasi
- Settlement.p3
- Panda
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- Shituru
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- Mayor
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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.
==Demographics== thumb|200x200px|left|View of Jadotville (Likasi), circa 1930. Likasi has a population of around 635,000 (2015). During the 1990s the United Nations set up feeding centres and refugee centres in and around Likasi to assist with the refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Shaba, whose arrival had increased the population of the town some 41,000.