Mpika

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Mpika is a town in northern Zambia that serves as an important regional transport hub and service center along the Tanzania–Zambia Railway.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mpika canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeRole district center
climateClassification humid subtropical climate
connectsTo Kapiri Mposhi
Kasama
Nakonde
Tanzania
country Zambia
countryCapitalOf none
economicActivity retail trade
small-scale agriculture
transport services
formerAdministrativeEntity Northern Province, Zambia
governingBody Mpika Town Council
hasEducationalInstitution secondary schools
hasHealthFacility district hospital
hasMarket local markets
hasNearbyAirport Mpika Airport
hasNearbyProtectedArea Lavushi Manda National Park
North Luangwa National Park
hasPostalService post office
hasRailwayStation Mpika railway station
hasReligiousBuilding churches
mosques
isServedBy freight trains
long-distance buses
languageSpoken Bemba
linked to: AbaBemba

English
locatedIn Northern Zambia
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Muchinga Province
locatedInDistrict Mpika District
locatedOnTransportRoute Great North Road (Zambia)
Tanzania–Zambia Railway
nearGeographicalFeature Luangwa River basin
linked to: Luangwa Valley

Muchinga Escarpment
railwayFunction maintenance and operations center on TAZARA
railwayLine TAZARA Railway
region Muchinga region of Zambia
roadDistanceTo Kasama
Lusaka
linked to: Lusaka, Zambia
roadNetworkRole junction on Great North Road
role regional transport hub
service center
subdivisionType urban settlement
timeZone Central Africa Time
transportCorridor Dar es Salaam–Lusaka corridor
utcOffset +2

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tanzania–Zambia Railway passesThrough Mpika
Nakonde roadLinkTo Mpika