Kapiri Mposhi

- 13.93055555555628.665277777778Koordinaten: 13 ° 56 ' S, 28 ° 40 ' E

Kapiri Mposhi is a town with 40,000 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ) north of the capital Lusaka in Zambia. It is located in the central province of the Great North Road ( Highway Tanzam ) and the railway in the Zambia Railways Ndola - Lusaka - Livingstone. Two kilometers from the small town branches at New Kapiri Mposhi the range of TAZARA to Tanzania from. Kapiri Mposhi lies 1250 meters above sea level and is capital of the district with 194 752 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

1931, the first copper mine in the later Copperbelts was erschürft here.

In Kapiri Mposhi there are some shops, a petrol station, a weekly market and a motel. It is mainly a transit point, a railway junction, from which, among other Dar es Salaam, Lubumbashi can be achieved in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cape Town. In addition, Zambia's leading busiest highway in the Copperbelt here and there through the branches off the Great North Road. The rate of infection with the HIV virus is here twice as high as the national average.

Kapiri Mposhi provides some jobs in the glass (Glass Products Ltd ) and ceramic production.