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Lilongwe

capital of Malawi
City city Q3876
Lilongwe

Facts

19 properties
Instance of
city, big city[5]
Inception
1902[8]
Country
Malawi[3]
Official website
www.llcitycouncil.org[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -13.986°, 33.768°
Capital of
Malawi, Central Region, Lilongwe District[14][15][16]
Area
+727.79[25]
Demonym
Lilongvano, lilongwais, lilongwaise, lilongwéen, lilongwéenne, Lilongwéen, Lilongwéenne, Lilongwais, Lilongwaise[18][19][20][21][22]
Elevation above sea level
+1050[24]
History of topic
timeline of Lilongwe[26]
Located in or next to body of water
Lilongwe River[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Lilongwe District[2]
Named after
Lilongwe River[6]
Native label
Lilongwe[23]
Official name
Lilongwe[17]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
P14541
12CG9Y
Population
440k (440k–989k, n=4)[10][11][12][13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 781,538 · 989,318 · 674,448 · 440,471 GeoNames 1,115,815 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Twinned administrative body
Taipei[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lilongwe ar ليلونغوي el Λιλόνγκουε es Lilongüe fa لیلونگوه he לילונגווה hi लिलोंगवे hi लिलोंगवेल ja リロングウェ ko 릴롱궤 pt Lilongue pt Lilongué pt Lilongwe ru Лилонгве sv Lilongwe (huvudstaden) th ลิลองเว uk Лілонгве zh 利隆圭
🔖 Identifiers · 41
VIAF cluster ID
134874487
Library of Congress authority ID
n81032100
GND ID
4111306-8
ArchINFORM location ID
8391
BBC Things ID
1a93aece-4623-4572-9663-b5d30b604570
BlackPast.org ID
global-african-history/lilongwe-malawi-1975
British Museum place ID
x61971
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--6897
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
581234
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Lilongwe
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
lilongwe
FAST ID
1212481
Show all 41 identifiers +29
Facebook location ID
112088755483281
FactGrid item ID
Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Freebase ID
/m/0fq7l
GeoNames ID
927967
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
lilongwe-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0037273
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Lilongwe
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2174383
Gynopedia ID
Lilongwe
Interlingual Index ID
i83800
Lex ID
Lilongwe
Libris-URI
0xbdc5wj3z8t75d
MusicBrainz area ID
bcb6ca5f-9f42-4de1-ab06-57d29f526a6f
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555052905171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
624106
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3932619
OpenStreetMap node ID
6765699485
Quora topic ID
Lilongwe-Malawi
SELIBR ID
152446
SNARC ID
Uttarakhand
Topic's main category
Category:Lilongwe
UN/LOCODE
MWLLW
Vikidia article ID
it:Lilongwe_(città, es:Lilongwe, fr:Lilongwe
WOEID
1367476
Who's on First ID
421168781
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08982868-n
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcGjKFCrTQRfC4pJtptrq
YSO ID
508359
Yale LUX ID
place/7dab6dcb-fe86-4dee-90a5-c61a0ba2bffe

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🔗 Connections
People born here 14
Jabulani Linje, Tam Nsaliwa, Elvis Kafoteka, Areneo David, Ulanda Mtamba, Rachel Sibande, Hellings Mwakasungula, Lucia Chandamale +6 more
Contained subdivisions 10
Bingu National Stadium, Silver Stadium, Lilongwe, African Bible College, Department of Agricultural Research & Technical Services, Department of Forestry, Malawi Government, Ministry of Education Science and Technology, Ministry of Health +2 more
← Headquarters location 9
Malawi Airlines, Malawi Congress Party, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Democratic Progressive Party, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe, Silver Strikers F.C., National Library Service of Malawi, Malawi News Agency +1 more
People who died here 5
Bingu wa Mutharika, Theresa Kachindamoto, Charles Swini, John Tembo, Sidik Mia
Capital of 3
Malawi, Central Region, Lilongwe District
← Capital 3
Malawi, Central Region, Lilongwe District
Instance of 2
city, big city
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Lilongwe, Category:Deaths in Lilongwe
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Lilongwe
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Lilongwe
Country 1
Malawi
FactGrid item ID 1
Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Located in or next to body of water 1
Lilongwe River
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Lilongwe District
Located in this place 1
Silver Stadium, Lilongwe
Located in time zone 1
UTC+02:00
Named after 1
Lilongwe International Airport
Named after 1
Lilongwe River
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
SNARC ID 1
Uttarakhand
Topic's main category 1
Category:Lilongwe
Twinned administrative body 1
Taipei
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Lilongwe
← Location of formation 1
Order of the Lion
← Place served by transport hub 1
Lilongwe International Airport
← SNARC ID 1
Moncton
← Twinned administrative body 1
Taipei
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Summary

Lilongwe is a city[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Lilongwe include Lilongwe International Airport[28], an international airport[29], in Malawi[30], founded in 1977[31].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Lilongwe include Lilongwe International Airport[28], an international airport[29], in Malawi[30], founded in 1977[31].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Malawi emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi is smiling again and it is all because of visionary leadership.” maravipost.com · read source

Related Entities

African Bible College Bingu wa Mutharika city Exploits University Malawi Malawi Congress Party Moncton Rachel Sibande Taipei

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . diplomatie.gouv.fr. diplomatie.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . diplomatie.gouv.fr. diplomatie.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . diplomatie.gouv.fr. diplomatie.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . diplomatie.gouv.fr. diplomatie.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-10-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    British Museum place ID → x61971
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ British Museum place ID: x61971, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/328376103|Lilongwe (#328376103)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8589|British Museum plac"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 12CG9Y
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Lilongwe
    Freebase ID → /m/0fq7l
    Gynopedia ID → Lilongwe
    Native label → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Lilongwe'}
    + 128 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 508359, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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