Republic of Zambia
África Oriental
Wild · Warm · Landlocked
Zambia shares Victoria Falls with Zimbabwe — together they form the world's largest sheet of falling water.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Kitwe, Ndola, Livingstone — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Lusaka grew from a railway siding named after a local headman, Lusakasa, into a national capital at independence in 1964 — its National Museum documents the entire arc from Iron Age settlement to Kenneth Kaunda's founding presidency, and the city's position at the juncture of four provinces reflects Zambia's deliberate postcolonial geography.
El idioma oficial es inglés, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Zambia se contacta mediante el código +260. Zambia's 73 recognised ethnic groups coexist within a national identity shaped by Kenneth Kaunda's Humanism philosophy — an African socialist doctrine emphasising reconciliation over retribution — and the country is notable in the region for peaceful transfers of power, having held competitive multiparty elections since 1991.
Zambia comparte sus fronteras con Malawi, Angola, República Democrática del Congo, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia. El tráfico rodado circula por la izquierda, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
The 1993 Gabon air crash killed the entire Zambian national football squad — 18 players and 12 officials — in a disaster that ended one of Africa's most promising football generations, and the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations victory, won on penalties in Libreville — the city nearest the crash site — was experienced across Zambia as a completion of unfinished history.
The Kafue National Park, at 22,400 square kilometres, is one of the largest in Africa and one of the least visited — its Busanga Plains flood seasonally to create a vast wetland supporting enormous herds of red lechwe, lions, wild dog and cheetah, in a landscape whose inaccessibility has preserved an ecosystem largely unchanged from its pre-colonial state.