Zambia

The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the northwest, the core economic hubs of the country. Originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century. After visits by European explorers in the eighteenth century, Zambia became the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia towards the end of the nineteenth century. For most of the colonial period, Zambia was governed by an administration appointed from London with the advice of the British South Africa Company.

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Geographical values

• absolute in degrees, minutes and seconds:
  15° 23′ 45″ S • of southern latitude
  28° 19′ 48″ E • of eastern longitude
• in degrees with decimal fractions:
  −15.395740°; 28.330061°

Length of Zambia from south to north is 1,080.068 kilometers, from west ot east – from 1,238.799 km on south to 1,289.289 km on north.