Shares Victoria Falls with Zimbabwe, the largest single sheet of falling water on Earth.
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Zambia
Republic of Zambia
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
752.61Kkmยฒ of land
$1.31KGDP / person
LusakaCapital
- ISO codes
- ZM ยท ZMB
- Density
- 24 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Zambian kwacha (ZMW)
- Dial code
- +260
- Internet domain
- .zm
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 14.6610ยฐ S, 26.3950ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Zambian
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $23.31B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 8
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By the numbers
How Zambia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
65th
of 242 ยท 0.23% of world population
Land area
40th
of 242 ยท 0.50% of world land
GDP per person
205th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
186th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Zambia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 17,861,030 people, the 65th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.23 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 752,612 kmยฒ, making it the 40th largest country here - about 8.2 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 24 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Lusaka, at 15.41ยฐ S, 28.28ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,328,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Angola, Botswana, Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi and Mozambique (and 3 more).
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Lusaka.
The currency is the Zambian kwacha (ZMW, symbol ZK).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Lusaka
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Lusaka
Lusaka
15.4147ยฐ S, 28.2814ยฐ E
1.33M
2
Kitwe
Copperbelt
12.8100ยฐ S, 28.2200ยฐ E
404.9K
3
Kabwe
Central
14.4400ยฐ S, 28.4500ยฐ E
188.98K
4
Livingstone
Southern
17.8600ยฐ S, 25.8600ยฐ E
165.48K
5
Mufulira
Copperbelt
12.5500ยฐ S, 28.2600ยฐ E
153.62K
6
Chipata
Eastern
13.6296ยฐ S, 32.6400ยฐ E
85.96K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Victoria Falls
Nature
Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders - spray from the drop rises 400 m and is visible 50 km away.
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with Zambia.