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Place details
- Locality
- Mansa
- Region
- Luapula Province
- Country
- Zambia
- Population
- 170,965
- Timezone
- Africa/Lusaka
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Zambia
- Province
- Luapula
- District
- Mansa District
- Elevation
- 3,900 ft (1,190 m)
- Total
- 129,185
- Postal codes
- Kasama town and other areas districts of northern province use the 410 postcode
- Climate
- Cwa
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of Mansa in Zambia Mansa is the capital of the Luapula Province of Zambia, and headquarters of Mansa District. It takes its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the Luapula River. During British rule the city was named Fort Rosebery.
Situation and character
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mansa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.