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Zambia
 A landlocked country in central Africa, Zambia occupies an elevated plateau, flanked in the south by the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls. There are more than 70 ethnic groups, and most of them live in Lusaka, the capital, or in the cities of the Copperbelt - the two largest, Ndola and Kitwe, have more than 400,000 people each. It is one of sub-Saharan Africa's most highly urbanized countries.
- Zambia was named after the River Zambezi
- The Zambian population is now at 11,261,795
- The local name for the "Victoria Falls" is "Mosi oa Tunya" which means the smoke that thunders
- -The skull of "Rhodesian Man" was found in Kabwe in 1921. The cranium is thought to be around three hundred thousand years old. It belongs to the species "Homo heidelbergensis".
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