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Internationally, Zambia was an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), and hosted a summit in Lusaka in 1970. Kenneth Kaunda served as the movements chairman 1970–1973. Among the NAM countries Zambia was especially close to Yugoslavia. Outside the NAM Zambia also had close relations with the People's Republic of China. [46]
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]
The country now known as Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from 1911. It was renamed Zambia at independence in 1964.
1888 - Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe, were proclaimed a British sphere of influence. 1890 - Frank Elliott Lochner told Lewanika that BSAC represented the British government, and on 27 June 1890 Lewanika consented to an exclusive mineral concession (called the Lochner concession).
List of renamed places in Zambia This page was last edited on 4 September 2024, at 21:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
Zambia is: a landlocked country; Location: Eastern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere; Africa. East Africa; Southern Africa; Time zone: Central Africa Time ; Extreme points of Zambia High: unnamed location in Mafinga Hills 2,329 m (7,641 ft) Low: Zambezi 329 m (1,079 ft) Land boundaries: 5,665 km Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,930 km
The territory to the north of the Zambezi was officially designated Northern Rhodesia by the company, and has been Zambia since 1964; that to the south, which the company dubbed Southern Rhodesia, became Zimbabwe in 1980. Northern and Southern Rhodesia were sometimes informally called "the Rhodesias".
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".