Great North Road, Zambia

The Great North Road is a major route in Zambia, which runs from north to Lusaka Kapiri Mposhi, Mpika, Kasama, Mbala and Mpulungu. Historically, this is the Zambian stretch of the Cape to Cairo road that Cecil John Rhodes had planned. In this regard, the road from the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe at Chirundu to Lusaka part of the Great North Road, as well as the section from Mbala after Mupulungu as the lane to the steamer service on Lake Tanganyika can be considered that until the 1950s was highly appreciated by the traveler.

When the highway Mpika Tanzania (the " Tanzam Highway" ) has been expanded over Tunduma in the 1960s and was considered a good way to Dar es Salaam and Arusha, this part as the Great North Road became known, instead of the part Mpika - Mbala which could be described as Old Great North Road.

In the city center of Lusaka, the Great North Road Cairo Road and became the commercial and business center of the city is, as well as to the ever- clogged thoroughfare that can handle over the Lumumba Road through traffic today.