Copperbelt
The Copperbelt Province is situated in Northern Zambia, a region which is very rich in minerals. It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule, but its economic importance was severely damaged by a crash in global copper prices in 1973 and the nationalization of the copper mines by the government of Kenneth Kaunda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ndola and Kitwe.
Ndola
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Ndola is a large city in the Copperbelt of northern Zambia, 10 km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a population in 2023 of 587,716, Ndola is all about mining.
Kitwe
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Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development and second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. With a population of 517,543 Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka.
Chingola
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Chingola is a city of 266,478 in Zambia. It lies in the Copperbelt region, the country's main copper mining area and its economy relies heavily on mining activities.
Copperbelt
- Type: province of Zambia with 2,770,000 residents
- Description: province of Zambia
- Also known as: “Copperbelt Province” and “Western Province”
- Location: Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Copperbelt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koperstreek”
- Arabic: “كوبربيلت (محافظه)”
- Arabic: “كوبربيلت”
- Arabic: “محافظة كوبربيلت”
- Belarusian: “Капербелт”
- Belarusian: “Капэрбэлт”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Капербелт”
- Bengali: “কপারবেলাট প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Копербелт”
- Bulgarian: “Копърбелт”
- Catalan: “província de Copperbelt”
- Cebuano: “Copperbelt Province”
- Chinese: “Copperbelt Séng”
- Chinese: “铜带省”
- Czech: “Copperbelt”
- Czech: “Provincie Copperbelt”
- Danish: “Copperbelt Province”
- Danish: “Copperbeltprovinsen”
- Danish: “Kobberbæltet”
- Dutch: “Copperbelt”
- Esperanto: “provinco Kuprozono”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Kuprozono”
- Estonian: “Copperbelt”
- Estonian: “Copperbelti provints”
- Finnish: “Copperbeltin provinssi”
- French: “Copperbelt”
- French: “Province de Copperbelt”
- Galician: “Provincia de Copperbelt”
- Georgian: “კოპერბელტის პროვინცია”
- German: “Copperbelt Province”
- German: “Copperbelt-Provinz”
- German: “Copperbelt”
- German: “ZM-08”
- Greek: “Κόππερμπελτ”
- Gujarati: “કૉપરબેલ્ટ પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קופרבלט”
- Hindi: “कॉपरबेल्ट प्रांत”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi copperbelt”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Copperbelt”
- Italian: “Copperbelt”
- Italian: “provincia di Copperbelt”
- Italian: “Provincia di Copperbelt”
- Japanese: “カッパーベルト州”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಪರ್ಬೆಲ್ಟ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “코퍼벨트주”
- Kotava: “ZambiaCopperbeltWinka”
- Latvian: “Koperbeltas province”
- Lithuanian: “Vario Juostos provincija”
- Luxembourgish: “Copperbelt”
- Malay: “Copperbelt Province”
- Marathi: “कॉपरबेल्ट प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Copperbelt Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Copperbelt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copperbelt”
- Norwegian: “Copperbelt”
- Persian: “استان کوپربلت”
- Polish: “Prowincja Copperbelt”
- Polish: “Prowincja Pasa Miedzionośnego”
- Portuguese: “Copperbelt”
- Romanian: “Provincia Copperbelt”
- Russian: “Коппербелт”
- Russian: “Коппербельт”
- Russian: “Меденосный пояс (провинция)”
- Sinhala: “කොපර්බෙල්ට් පළාත, සැම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “කොපර්බෙල්ට් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Copperbelt”
- Spanish: “Copperbelt”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Copperbelt (Zambia)”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Copperbelt”
- Swahili: “Copperbelt Province”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Copperbelt”
- Swedish: “Copperbelt”
- Tamil: “காப்பெற்பெல்ட் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “కాపర్ బెల్ట్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “కాపర్ బెల్ట్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเปอเบลท์”
- Turkish: “Copperbelt Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Коппербелт”
- Urdu: “کاپربیلٹ صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Copperbelt”
- Western Mari: “Коппербелт”
- Zulu: “Copperbelt Province”
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