Definition of Lubumbashi

1. Noun. A city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville.

Exact synonyms: Elisabethville
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Belgian Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Zaire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubumbashi

Luang Prabang
Luannah
Luanne
Luas
Luba
Luba-Katanga
Lubavitch
Lubavitch movement
Lubavitcher
Lubbock
Lubeck
Lubitsch
Lublin
Lubrol
Lubumbashi
Luc's operation
Lucania
Lucanidae
Lucas
Lucas' groove
Lucasian
Lucayan
Lucayans
Lucca
Lucchese
Lucea
Lucerne
Lucerne hammer
Luchino Visconti

Literary usage of Lubumbashi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Prisons by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization (1993)
"At Kasapa prison in lubumbashi, an average of nine prisoners a month have died ... The director of Kasapa prison in lubumbashi reported that 173 of 350 ..."

2. Prison Conditions in Zaire by Peter Rosenblum (1994)
"5<On May 11-12, commandos attacked students on the campus of the University of lubumbashi in Shaba, killing an unknown number, and traumatizing the ..."

3. The Mines Handbook: An Enlargement of the Copper Hand Book; a Manual of the by Walter Harvey Weed (1918)
"It is 100 miles NW of the Star of the Congo a now reached by the railway and can ship its ores to the lubumbashi smelt 2-compartment haulage tunnel has been ..."

4. Women in South African History: Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo / They by Nomboniso Gasa (2008)
"From my side, it [the decision to migrate] was welcomed given that it was my wish to leave lubumbashi in order to come to South Africa. ..."

5. Human Rights Watch World Report 1998 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1997)
"Been Masudi is also the inspiration behind the "Concertation," the umbrella forum of all human rights organizations in lubumbashi that act together to raise ..."

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