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.
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Copperbelt
- Type: province of Zambia with 2,770,000 residents
- Description: province of Zambia
- Also known as: “Copperbelt Province”, “Copperbelt-Provinz”, “Provincie Copperbelt”, “Provinsi copperbelt”, “Prowincja Copperbelt”, “Western Province”, “ZM-08”, “Копербелт”, “Коппербельт”, “Меденосный пояс (провинция)”, “كوبربيلت (محافظه)”, “محافظة كوبربيلت”, and “కాపర్ బెల్ట్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Location: Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-13° or 13° south
Longitude of center
28° east
Population
2,770,000
Elevation
1,216 metres (3,990 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Copperbelt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koperstreek”
- Amharic: “Copperbelt”
- Arabic: “كوبربيلت”
- Arabic: “محافظة كوبربلت”
- Azerbaijani: “Bakır Bölgəsi”
- Belarusian: “Капербелт”
- Belarusian: “Капэрбэлт”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Капербелт”
- Bengali: “কপারবেলাট প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Копърбелт”
- Catalan: “província de Copperbelt”
- Cebuano: “Copperbelt Province”
- Chinese: “铜带省”
- Czech: “Copperbelt”
- 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”
- Greek: “Κόππερμπελτ”
- Gujarati: “કૉપરબેલ્ટ પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Copperbelt”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קופרבלט”
- Hindi: “कॉपरबेल्ट प्रांत”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Copperbelt”
- Italian: “Copperbelt”
- Italian: “provincia di Copperbelt”
- Italian: “Provincia di Copperbelt”
- Japanese: “カッパーベルト州”
- Javanese: “Copperbelt”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಪರ್ಬೆಲ್ಟ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Мыстық белі”
- Kirghiz: “Жез биттүүсү”
- Korean: “코퍼벨트주”
- Kotava: “ZambiaCopperbeltWinka”
- Latvian: “Koperbelta”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Kobraa”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਂਬੇ ਦੀ ਪੱਟੀ”
- Persian: “استان کوپربلت”
- Polish: “Prowincja Pasa Miedzionośnego”
- Portuguese: “Copperbelt”
- Pushto: “مسو کمربند”
- Romanian: “Provincia Copperbelt”
- Russian: “Коппербелт”
- Sinhala: “කොපර්බෙල්ට් පළාත, සැම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “කොපර්බෙල්ට් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Copperbelt”
- Somali: “Koofurta Naxaaska”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Copperbelt (Zambia)”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Copperbelt”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Copperbelt”
- Swedish: “Copperbelt”
- Tajik: “Ғамии Мис”
- Tamil: “காப்பெற்பெல்ட் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Ялтӑр Бӑшӑклӑ”
- Telugu: “కాపర్ బెల్ట్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเปอเบลท์”
- Turkish: “Copperbelt Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Коппербелт”
- Urdu: “کاپربیلٹ صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Mis mintaqasi”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Copperbelt”
- Western Mari: “Коппербелт”
- Zulu: “Copperbelt Province”
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