Kolwezi
Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi.
Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It has an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. Just outside of Kolwezi there is the static inverter plant of the HVDC Inga-Shaba. The population is approximately 573,000.
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Getting to Kolwezi
- Airports
- Lubumbashi (FBM), 245 km
- Stations
- Kolwezi Airport, 6.6 km
- Lubumbashi → Kolwezi243 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · $24–33
- Ndola → Kolwezi426 km · quickest by road, 9h 6m · $44–60
- Goma → Kolwezi1088 km · quickest by road, 34h 27m · $150–205
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kolwezi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kolwezi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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