Kapiri Mposhi

Town in Central, Zambia

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13°58′38″S 28°41′5″E / 13.97722°S 28.68472°E / -13.97722; 28.68472Country

ZambiaProvinceCentralDistrictKapiri MposhiPopulation

(2010)^[1]

• Total14,792Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)ClimateCwa

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]}

Geography

Location

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

The town is approximately 60 km north of Kabwe and 110 km south of Ndola.

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

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).^[4]

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.

Notable residents

Janny Sikazwe, association football referee.

Gallery

Market street

Panoramic view from the railway

Market

References

^ Central statistics office of Zambia: 2010 Census Archived 2015-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ 776377628 Kapiri Mposhi on OpenStreetMap
^ "Central Provincial Administration » Kapiri Mposhi". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
^ "Roads and Road Traffic Act | National Assembly of Zambia". www.parliament.gov.zm. Retrieved 2022-06-27.