Lubumbashi is an English word with synonyms like elisabethville or city. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lubumbashi in a sentence
Lubumbashi meaning
A large city, the capital of Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Synonyms of Lubumbashi
Using Lubumbashi
- The main meaning on this page is: A large city, the capital of Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Useful related words include: elisabethville, city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, lubumbashi often appears in combinations such as: in lubumbashi, of lubumbashi, from lubumbashi.
Context around Lubumbashi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lubumbashi
- In this selection, "lubumbashi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, westerly, city, now, maintains, democratic and once stand out and add context to how "lubumbashi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include began in lubumbashi and center of lubumbashi. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lubumbashi" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lubumbashi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 2005, new television broadcasts by Radio Mwangaza began in Lubumbashi. (11 words)
Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple: Ground broken Aug. 22, 2022. (12 words)
The University of Lubumbashi maintains a small teaching hospital in the center of Lubumbashi. (14 words)
Towards the end of the 90s, Laurent Kabila created and appointed a Transitional Parliament, with a seat in the buildings of the former Katanga Parliament, in the southern town of Lubumbashi, in a move to unite the country, and to legitimate his regime. (43 words)
The police said they would take them to the hospital, but we learned later that they instead drove around with them until the next day, when they were taken to a hospital in Lubumbashi. (34 words)
The travel time from Lubumbashi to Kasomeno in Katanga went down from seven days to two hours because of the improved roads which led to the decrease of prices of main goods by 60%. (34 words)
Example sentences (16)
The University of Lubumbashi maintains a small teaching hospital in the center of Lubumbashi.
Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple: Ground broken Aug. 22, 2022.
Some 200km, as the crow flies, on the other side of the border, is north-westerly Lubumbashi – once the bastion of Belgian colonial settlers.
They lost by the same narrow margin in the corresponding fixture that was played in Lubumbashi last year.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino was talking in Lubumbashi during the 80th anniversary celebrations of DR Congo side TP Mazembe.
In DR Congo’s second city Lubumbashi, youths set vehicle tyres on fire and were then dispersed by riot police.
The police said they would take them to the hospital, but we learned later that they instead drove around with them until the next day, when they were taken to a hospital in Lubumbashi.
A bloody intervention of the Zaïrian Army against students on the Lubumbashi University Campus in May 1990 precipitated a break in diplomatic relations between Belgium and Zaïre.
In 2005, new television broadcasts by Radio Mwangaza began in Lubumbashi.
Lubumbashi International Airport in the country's south-east is also serviced by several international airlines.
On 17 January 1961 Mobutu sent Lumumba to Élisabethville (now Lubumbashi ), capital of Katanga.
Other authorities consider Comorian to be a Sabaki language, distinct from Swahili. citation Historically recent varieties * Shaba Swahili (Katanga Swahili, Lubumbashi Swahili) is sometimes called Copperbelt Swahili.
Railway links with adjacent countries * DR Congo - yes, Ndola to Sakania then Lubumbashi - maincheck, freight only.
The travel time from Lubumbashi to Kasomeno in Katanga went down from seven days to two hours because of the improved roads which led to the decrease of prices of main goods by 60%.
Towards the end of the 90s, Laurent Kabila created and appointed a Transitional Parliament, with a seat in the buildings of the former Katanga Parliament, in the southern town of Lubumbashi, in a move to unite the country, and to legitimate his regime.
Transport All aboard - a train from Lubumbashi arriving in Kindu on a newly refurbished line.
Common combinations with lubumbashi
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in lubumbashi 5×
- of lubumbashi 4×
- from lubumbashi 2×