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Kapiri Mposhi

Kapiri Mposhi

Town in Central, Zambia

Kapiri Mposhi is a Zambian town and the seat of the Kapiri Mposhi District in Central Province. Located north of Lusaka, it stands on the Great North Road and is significant for the railway connection between the Zambia Railways line from Kitwe to Lusaka and the western terminus (New Kapiri Mposhi) of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority from Dar es Salaam since 1976.[citation needed]

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Geography

See also: Kapiri Mposhi District

The town lies in the middle of Zambia, next to the borders with Copperbelt Province.[2]

The town is approximately 60 km north of Kabwe and 110 km south of Ndola. It is situated at the junction of the T2 road (Great North Road; which connects south to Kabwe and Lusaka and north-east to Mpika and Tanzania) and the T3 road (which connects north to Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola and the Democratic Republic Of Congo).

It is surrounded by 8 Districts, namely, Kabwe District to the south, Chisamba District to the south-east, Luano District on the east, Mkushi District on the north-east, Masaiti District to the north, Mpongwe District to the north-west, Ngabwe District to the west and Chibombo District to the south-west.[3]

Transport

Kapiri Mposhi has two railways stations, the terminal station of the 1067 mm TAZARA Railway that connects it to Mpika, Kasama and Dar-es-Salaam in the north-east; and an en-route Zambia Railways station that connects it to Lusaka and Livingstone in the south and to Ndola and Kitwe in the north.

Just north of the town, there is a major road junction, that is the junction of the T3 road (which goes north to Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola and the Democratic Republic of Congo) and the T2 road (Zambia's Great North Road; which goes north-east to Serenje, Mpika, and the Republic of Tanzania and south through Kapiri Mposhi to Kabwe and Lusaka). This, combined with the railway links, makes Kapiri Mposhi an important point in the regional freight network.[citation needed]

Famous residents

Janny Sikazwe, association football referee.

Market street
Panoramic view from the railway
Market

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Central statistics office of Zambia: 2010 Census Archived 2015-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    776377628 Kapiri Mposhi on OpenStreetMap
  3. [3]
    "Central Provincial Administration » Kapiri Mposhi". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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