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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 map of Köppen climate classification. Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with a tropical climate, and consists mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys. At 752,614 km 2 (290,586 sq mi) it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile. The country lies ...
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.
Copperbelt Province is a province in Zambia which covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south.It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the immediate post-independence period, but its economic importance was severely damaged by a crash in global copper prices in 1973.
Zambia is divided into ten provinces (since 2012), [1] [2] each administered by an appointed provincial minister. Each province is divided into several districts with a total of 116 districts in the nation (since 2016). [3] [4] Each district contains one or several constituencies with a total of 156 constituencies in the nation (since 2016). [5]
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.
Lusaka Province is one of the ten provinces of Zambia. It is the smallest in terms of land area, covering 21,896 km 2 . However, it is the most populated and densely populated province in Zambia, with a population of 3,079,964 as of 2022 and a population density of 140 persons per km 2 .
North-Western Province is one of ten Provinces of Zambia. It covers an area of 125,826 km 2 (48,582 sq mi), has a population of 1,278,357 and a population density of 20 per square kilometre as of 2022. [ 2 ]