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DID YOU KNOW?
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• Did you know that Zambia has only 13 million in-
habitants? Its surface area is equivalent to that of
France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland
combined.
• Did you know that Livingstone was the capital of
Zambia until 1935? When a more central location
was needed, Lusaka was chosen to be the govern-
ment administrative center by a city planner from
London.
• Did you know that 40,000 years ago, the Zambezi
River was falling into the Batoka Gorge, 90km
away from the Victoria Falls. A long process of
erosion resulted in the eight gorges that now form
the river’s slalom course after it has passed over
the present Falls. Each gorge was once a great
waterfall.
• Did you know that Zambia is the world’s fourth larg-
est producer of copper and the largest producer
of cobalt?
• Did you know that Zambia is one of the only African
countries never to have suffered any wars or civil
wars?
• Did you know that although copper has been
known and used for centuries in the Copperbelt
area, the early European discovery was made by
prospector William Collier who discovered copper
on the site where he had shot a roan antelope in
1902; the first company to exploit the resources in
Luanshya was called Roan Antelope Mining Cor-
poration.
Credit: Luis López
