Zambia

Zambia

Zambia ranks 119th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guatemala, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. Memorable people born in present day Zambia include Wilbur Smith, Kenneth Kaunda, and Stanley Fischer. Memorable people who died in Zambia include David Livingstone, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Kenneth Kaunda. Zambia has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and religious figures.

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bordered to the north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the north, the core economic hubs of the country. Read more on Wikipedia