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Zambia offers travelers some of the world's best safari opportunities, a glimpse into "real Africa", and , one of the World's Seven Natural Wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Lusaka and Ndola.

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, in Province, is the capital of Zambia. It is a cosmopolitan city that is home to about 2.7 million people, approximately one in six Zambians. is the centre of commerce and government in Zambia, and has several cultural facilities.

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is a large city in the of northern Zambia, 10 km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a population in 2023 of 587,716, is all about mining.

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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 is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside and .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Zambia and Copperbelt.

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The central region of Zambia includes Lusaka Province with the capital city , and Central Province with notable towns such as and numerous national parks.

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The 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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The Luangwa Valley, largely covered by the Eastern Province of Zambia is, arguably, the least developed. Some say this is because it's simply the most inaccessible.

The is a region in Western Zambia, consisting of Western, Northwestern, and Southern Provinces.

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The is a region of Zambia.

Zambia

Latitude of center
-13.56° or 13° 33′ 36″ south
Longitude of center
28.3° or 28° 18′ east
Population
16,400,000
Area
752,614 km² (290,586 miles²)
Elevation
1,156 metres (3,793 feet)
Capital
Currency
Kwacha (ZMW)
Phone code
.zm
Internet domain
260
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
895949
Wiki­data ID
Q953
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Zambia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Замбиа”
  • Abkhazian: “Замбиа”
  • Achinese: “Zambia”
  • Afrikaans: “Zambië”
  • Akan: “Zambia”
  • Albanian: “Zambi”
  • Albanian: “Zambia”
  • Amharic: “ዛምቢያ”
  • Amis: “Zambia”
  • Angika: “जाम्बिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية زامبيا”
  • Arabic: “زامبيا”
  • Aragonese: “Zambia”
  • Armenian: “Զամբիա”
  • Arpitan: “Zambia”
  • Arpitan: “Zambie”
  • Assamese: “জাম্বিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Zambia”
  • Atayal: “Zambia”
  • Awadhi: “जाम्बिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zambiya”
  • Balinese: “Zambia”
  • Bambara: “Zanbi”
  • Bambara: “Zanbia”
  • Banjar: “Zambia”
  • Bashkir: “Замбия”
  • Basque: “Zambia”
  • Bavarian: “Sambia”
  • Belarusian: “Замбія”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Замбія”
  • Bengali: “জামবিয়া”
  • Bengali: “জাম্বিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Sambia”
  • Bhojpuri: “जांबिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज़ांबिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “जाम्बिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज़ाम्बिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “জাম্বিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Sambia”
  • Bosnian: “Zambija”
  • Breton: “Zambia”
  • Bulgarian: “Замбия”
  • Burmese: “ဇမ်ဘီယာ”
  • Burmese: “ဇမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Zàmbia”
  • Cebuano: “Zambia”
  • Cebuano: “Zambiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Sambya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Zambia”
  • Central Kurdish: “زامبیا”
  • Chavacano: “Zambia”
  • Chechen: “Замби”
  • Cherokee: “ᏏᎻᏆᏇ”
  • Cheyenne: “Zambia”
  • Chinese: “Zambia”
  • Chinese: “Zànbǐyà”
  • Chinese: “尚比亞”
  • Chinese: “贊比亞”
  • Chinese: “赞比亚 / 尚比亞”
  • Chinese: “赞比亚”
  • Chuvash: “Замби”
  • Cornish: “Zambi”
  • Corsican: “Zamibia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Zambiya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Zambiye”
  • Croatian: “Zambija”
  • Czech: “Zambie”
  • Dagbani: “Zambia”
  • Danish: “Zambia”
  • Dhivehi: “ޒެމްބިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Zambiya”
  • Dinka: “Dhambia”
  • Dotyali: “जाम्बिया”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Zambia”
  • Dutch: “Zambia”
  • Dutch: “Zambië”
  • Dutch: “ZM”
  • Dutch: “ZMB”
  • Dzongkha: “ཛམ་བྷི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Замбий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زامبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Zambio”
  • Esperanto: “Zambio”
  • Esperanto: “ZM”
  • Estonian: “Sambia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Sambia”
  • Estonian: “Zambia”
  • Ewe: “Zambia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Zambia”
  • Extremaduran: “Zámbia”
  • Farefare: “Zambia”
  • Faroese: “Sambia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Zambia”
  • Finnish: “Sambia”
  • Finnish: “Sambian tasavalta”
  • French: “République de Zambie”
  • French: “Zambie”
  • French: “zm”
  • French: “ZM”
  • Fulah: “Sammbi”
  • Fulah: “Sammbiya”
  • Gagauz: “Zambiya”
  • Galician: “Zambia”
  • Ganda: “Zambia”
  • Ganda: “Zambya”
  • Georgian: “ზამბია”
  • German: “Sambia”
  • German: “Nordrhodesien” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Zambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zambia”
  • Gilaki: “زامبيا”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Ζάμπιας”
  • Greek: “Ζάμπια”
  • Guarani: “Sámbia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zanbi”
  • Gujarati: “ઝામ્બિયા”
  • Haitian: “Zanbi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Zambia”
  • Hausa: “Zambiya”
  • Hebrew: “זמביה”
  • Hindi: “जांबिया”
  • Hindi: “जाम्बिया”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाम्बिया”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Rhodesia”
  • Hungarian: “Zambia”
  • Hungarian: “Zambiai Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Zambia”
  • Icelandic: “Norður-Ródesía” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Sambía”
  • Ido: “Zambia”
  • Igbo: “Zambia”
  • Iloko: “Zambia”
  • Inari Sami: “Sambia”
  • Inari Sami: “Zambia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Zambia”
  • Indonesian: “Zambia”
  • Interlingua: “Zambia”
  • Interlingue: “Zambia”
  • Irish: “an tSaimbia”
  • Irish: “An tSaimbia”
  • Irish: “Poblacht na Saimbia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dello Zambia”
  • Italian: “Zambia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Zambia”
  • Japanese: “ザンビア”
  • Japanese: “ザンビア共和国”
  • Japanese: “北ローデシア”
  • Javanese: “Sambia”
  • Javanese: “Zambia”
  • Kabiyè: “Sambii”
  • Kabyle: “Zambya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Zambia”
  • Kalmyk: “Замбудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಝಾಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Zambiya”
  • Kashmiri: “جامبِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Zambiô”
  • Kazakh: “Замбия”
  • Khmer: “ប្រទេសហ្សំប៊ី”
  • Khmer: “សំប៊ី”
  • Kikuyu: “Zambia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Zambiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Замбия”
  • Kongo: “Zambia”
  • Korean: “잠비아”
  • Kotava: “Zambia”
  • Kurdish: “Zambiya”
  • Ladin: “Sambia”
  • Ladino: “Zambia”
  • Lao: “ແຊມເບຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Zambeja”
  • Latin: “Zambia”
  • Latvian: “Zambija”
  • Lezghian: “Замбия”
  • Ligurian: “Zambia”
  • Limburgan: “Zambia”
  • Lingala: “Zambi”
  • Lingala: “Zambia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Zambia”
  • Literary Chinese: “尚比亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Zambija”
  • Livvi: “Zambii”
  • Lojban: “zambias”
  • Lombard: “Zambia”
  • Low German: “Republiek Zambia”
  • Low German: “Sambia”
  • Low German: “Zambia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sambija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Zambi”
  • Lule Sami: “Sámmba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sambia”
  • Macedonian: “Замбија”
  • Malagasy: “Zambia”
  • Malay: “Zambia”
  • Malayalam: “സാംബിയ”
  • Maltese: “iż-Żambja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika taż-Żambja”
  • Maltese: “Żambja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯓꯥꯝꯕꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght ny Sambia”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Tambia”
  • Manx: “Sambia”
  • Manx: “y Tambia”
  • Manx: “Yn Tambia”
  • Manx: “ZAM”
  • Manx: “Zambia”
  • Manx: “ZED”
  • Manx: “ZM”
  • Manx: “ZMB”
  • Maori: “Tāmipia”
  • Marathi: “झांबिया”
  • Marathi: “झाम्बिया”
  • Mazanderani: “زامبیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Zambia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zambia”
  • Minangkabau: “Zambia”
  • Mingrelian: “ზამბია”
  • Moksha: “Замбия”
  • Mongolian: “Замби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “زامبيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߖ߭ߊ߲ߓߌߦߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Zambia”
  • Navajo: “Tééhoołtsódii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “जाम्बिया”
  • Newari: “जाम्बिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Zambiya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sambia”
  • Northern Sami: “Zambia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Zámbia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Zambia”
  • Northern Sami: “Zámbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Zambia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zambia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zambia”
  • Norwegian: “Zambia”
  • Novial: “Zambia”
  • Nyanja: “Zambia”
  • Obolo: “Zambia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zambia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sambia”
  • Oriya: “ଜାମ୍ବିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Zaambiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Замби”
  • Pali: “जाम्बिया”
  • Pampanga: “Zambia”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਂਬੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਮਬੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Zambia”
  • Pedi: “Zambia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Sambia”
  • Persian: “زامبیا”
  • Piemontese: “Zambia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Zambia”
  • Polish: “Rodezja Północna”
  • Polish: “Zambia”
  • Portuguese: “Zâmbia”
  • Pushto: “زامبيا”
  • Pushto: “زیمبیا”
  • Quechua: “Sambya”
  • Quechua: “Sampiya”
  • Quechua: “Zambia”
  • Romanian: “Zambia”
  • Romansh: “Sambia”
  • Rundi: “Zambiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Замби”
  • Russian: “Замбия”
  • Russian: “Республика Замбия”
  • Rusyn: “Замбия”
  • Rusyn: “Замбія”
  • Sakizaya: “Zambia”
  • Samoan: “Zambia”
  • Samogitian: “Zambėjė”
  • Sango: “Zambïi”
  • Sanskrit: “जाम्बिया”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱟᱢᱵᱤᱭᱟ ᱨᱮᱱᱟᱜ ᱟᱹᱯᱱᱟᱹᱛ”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱟᱢᱵᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Zàmbia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sambia”
  • Scots: “Zambie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Saimbia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sàimbia”
  • Serbian: “Republika Zambija”
  • Serbian: “Zambija”
  • Serbian: “zm”
  • Serbian: “Замбија”
  • Serbian: “Република Замбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zambija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၸမ်းပီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Zambia”
  • Sicilian: “Zambia”
  • Silesian: “Zambijo”
  • Sindhi: “زيمبيا”
  • Sinhala: “සැම්බියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sambia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sambia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Zambia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Zambia”
  • Slovak: “Zambia”
  • Slovak: “Zambijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Zambija”
  • Slovenian: “ZAM”
  • Slovenian: “Zambija”
  • Slovenian: “zm”
  • Somali: “Saambiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زامبیا”
  • South Ndebele: “Zambia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Zambia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Zambia”
  • Spanish: “República de Zambia”
  • Spanish: “Zambia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵥⴰⵎⴱⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Zambia”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Zambia”
  • Swahili: “ZAM”
  • Swahili: “Zambia”
  • Swahili: “zm”
  • Swati: “IZambiya”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Zambia”
  • Swedish: “Zambia”
  • Swiss German: “Sambia”
  • Tagalog: “Zambia”
  • Tajik: “Замбия”
  • Talysh: “Zambijə”
  • Talysh: “Zambiya”
  • Tamil: “சாம்பியா”
  • Tamil: “ஜாம்பியா”
  • Taroko: “Zambia”
  • Tatar: “Замбия”
  • Telugu: “జాంబియా”
  • Thai: “แซมเบีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแซมเบีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཛམ་བི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ዛምቢያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Semipia”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Sambia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sambia”
  • Tsonga: “Zambia”
  • Tsonga: “Zambiya”
  • Tswana: “Zambia”
  • Tumbuka: “Zambia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “زامبيا”
  • Turkish: “Zambiya”
  • Turkmen: “Zambiýa”
  • Udmurt: “Замбия”
  • Uighur: “زامبىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Замбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Родезія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Замбія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sambija”
  • Urdu: “زامبیا”
  • Urdu: “زیمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Zambiya”
  • Venetian: “Zànbia”
  • Veps: “Zambii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Zambia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Zambia”
  • Vietnamese: “Dăm-bi-a (Zambia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Dăm-bi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Zambia”
  • Vlax Romani: “Zambiya”
  • Volapük: “Zambiyän”
  • Võro: “Sambia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zambia”
  • Welsh: “Sambia”
  • Welsh: “Zambia”
  • Western Armenian: “Զամպիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Sambia”
  • Western Frisian: “Zambia”
  • Western Mari: “Замби”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیمبیا”
  • Wolof: “Saambi”
  • Wolof: “Sàmbi”
  • Wu Chinese: “赞比亚”
  • Xhosa: “EZambia”
  • Yakut: “Замбия”
  • Yiddish: “זאמביע”
  • Yiddish: “זאַמביע”
  • Yoruba: “Sámbíà”
  • Yoruba: “Ṣamibia”
  • Yoruba: “Zambia”
  • Yue Chinese: “贊比亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Zambia”
  • Zhuang: “Zambia”
  • Zulu: “i-Zambia”
  • Zulu: “IZambiya”
  • “ma Sanpija”
  • “Sambia”
  • “ZAM”
  • “Zambėjė”
  • “Zambia”
  • “ZED”
  • “ZM”
  • “ZMB”
  • “जांबिया”

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