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Agriculture is the major profession in most of the provinces in Zambia. Maize, mixed beans, rice, sorghum, soya beans, sunflower, sweet potatoes and wheat are the major crops in the provinces. Among all provinces, Central had the maximum area, 391,593.23 ha (967,647.9 acres), constituting 20.64 per cent of the total, while Luapula had the ...
Zambia is officially a "Christian nation" under the 1996 constitution, but recognizes and protects freedom of religion. [97] Zambia is the only African nation to designate Christianity as a state religion. [98] The Zambia Statistics Agency estimates that 95.5% of Zambians are Christian, with 75.3% Protestant and 20.2% Roman Catholic. [99]
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The main road into the province is the 590-kilometre Lusaka–Mongu Road from Central Province, through Kaoma to Mongu. [4] There is a plan to link Zambia to its neighbouring Angola and as of 2016, the Barotse Floodplain Causeway, which extends the Lusaka-Mongu Road and connects Mongu with the other side of the Zambezi River has been completed.
Southern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces. It is home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction, Mosi-oa-Tunya ( Victoria Falls ), shared with Zimbabwe . The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop.
The total area of the province was 51,476 km 2 and the population density was 30.90 per km 2. The population density during 2000 Zambian census stood at 17.8. [16] The decadal population growth of the province was 2.60 per cent. The province recorded the highest rural population of 1,392,338 in 2010 among all provinces in the country.
The ten provinces of Zambia are divided into a total of 116 districts as of 2018.. Article 109 in part VIII of the constitution of Zambia deals with local government.It states only that there should be some form of local government, and that this local government should be based on democratically elected councils on the basis of universal adult suffrage.
Central Province is considered the birthplace of the national movement of Zambia. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) was founded in Kabwe by Kenneth Kaunda , who later became the first President of Zambia and remained in office from 1964 to 1991.