Ndola
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| Country | Zambia |
| province | Copperbelt |
| height | 1300 m |
| Residents | 451,246 (2010) |
| founding | 1904 |
| Website | www.cityofndola.gov.zm |
 Street with blooming jacaranda in Ndola
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Coordinates: 12 ° 59 ′ S , 28 ° 39 ′ E
Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia with a population of 400,000 (2006 calculation) at an altitude of 1,300 meters above sea level. As the capital of the Copperbelt Province, it is its center, with temporary restrictions its processing and administrative center and thus the economic focus of Zambia. The city is the seat of the administration of the district of the same name with 374,757 inhabitants (2000 census). Ndola lies on the Itawa and Kafubu rivers .
history
Ndola was founded in 1904 by John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson only six months after Livingstone and is therefore the second oldest city in Zambia from the colonial times. The name of the city comes from a river called Kandola in the Lamba language and was later shortened to Ndola. Ndola received its city status in 1967. Before it was founded, it was a center of the African and Arab slave trade until the 19th century, which was mainly carried out in the shade of the “slave tree ”, a fig tree that still stands today. This tree can also be found in the city's coat of arms.
The main route of the Rhodesian Railways (RR) opened up the city in 1907 and connected Ndola with Bulawayo in what is now southwestern Zimbabwe and over other routes with Cape Town . The line was extended to the DR Congo and connected to the Angolan port of Lobito on the Atlantic coast via the Benguela Railway. Therefore, Ndola became the most important trading center in Zambia.
Population development
The following overview shows the population by area since the 1990 census.
| year | population |
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| 1990 (census) | 329.228 |
| 2000 (census) | 374.757 |
| 2010 (census) | 451.246 |
economy
In Ndola there is cement industry, wood processing ( Wood Processing Industries , Zambia Forests & Forestry ), furniture, shoe and soap production, production of tires ( Dunlop Zambia Ltd ), breweries, soft drinks ( Invesco Limited ), production of jewelry ( Pan-Afro Gem Lapidary ) and precious stones ( Zambia Emerald Industries Ltd ); refineries for copper, oil, sugar, agricultural products processing ( Indeco Milling Company Limited ) and food production ( Lyons Brooke Bond Ltd ). There was also an automobile plant here ( Rover (Zambia) ) and currently commercial vehicle production ( Tata Zambia ). Limestone is being quarried ( Ndola Lime Company Limited (NLC), a subsidiary of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings (ZCCM-IH)). Since the closure of the local copper mine because of the lower copper prices on the world market, the copper smelter has left the city, as have the numerous companies in the textile industry. Since 2005, however, new deposits east of the city (40 million tons of copper ore with 0.75 percent copper content and 3 million tons of ore with 3.5 percent copper content, with lead and zinc) have been tapped. The Dar es Salaam oil pipeline in Tanzania ends here. Two of Zambia's major newspapers, Times of Zambia and Sunday Times , are printed here. The Zambian Trade Fair takes place here every year.
tourism
Ndola is on the railway line to Lusaka , has a cinema, the Copperbelt Museum, a memorial to the death of the second UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld , whose plane crashed here in 1961. There are numerous shops, a large weekly market and many hotels. Ndola has a diverse tourist potential. At the souvenir stands there are carved animals, jewelry, painted clothes and African wraps called chitengi .
Infrastructure
Ndola is located on the economically important T3 trunk road . There is Ndola Airport and the country's largest rail hub and train station .
The city has a power station, schools of all kinds, including the Simba International School with boarding school , a technical college, a campus of the University of Zambia and hospitals.
Churches
The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of the same name .
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Ndola
Source: wetterkontor.de
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sons and daughters of the town
- Noah Chivuta (* 1983), football player
- Jones Mwewa (1973-2011), football player
- Gerald Phiri (* 1988), track and field athlete
- Rozalla (born 1964), singer
- Jackson Wahengo (* 1978), Namibian musician
Web links
- map
- Ndola reports (English)
- Photos by Ndola
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zambia: Provinces, Cities & Urban Settlements - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
Chililabombwe | Chingola | Kalulushi | Kitwe | Luanshya | Lufwanyama | Masaiti | Mpelembe | Mufulira | Ndola