Ndola

- 12.97528.641666666667Koordinaten: 12 ° 59 ' S, 28 ° 39' O

Ndola is the second largest city in Zambia, with a population of 400,000 inhabitants ( 2006 calculation ) at 1300 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the province of Copperbelt its center, with its temporal constraints between 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 with 374 757 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

History

Ndola was founded in 1904 by John Edward " Chiripula " Stephenson just six months after Livingstone, making it the second oldest town in Zambia from colonial times. The city's name comes from a time specified in the Lamba language Kandola river and was later shortened to Ndola. Ndola received its town status in 1967. Prior to its creation, it was to the 19th century a center of African and Arab slave trade, which was mainly in the shadow of "slave tree ", a fig tree, which still stands today, performed. This tree is also found in the coat of arms of the city.

The main route of the Rhodesian Railways (RR) opened up the city in 1907 and joined Ndola with Bulawayo in the Southwestern part of Zimbabwe and over longer distances with Cape Town. The line was extended into DR Congo and connected via the Benguela railway to the Angolan port of Lobito on the Atlantic coast. Therefore Ndola became the main hub of Zambia.

Economy

In Ndola, there are cement industry, wood processing (Wood Processing Industries, Zambia Forests and Forestry ), furniture, shoe and soap production, a car assembly plant, manufacture of tires ( Dunlop Zambia Ltd ), breweries, soft drinks ( Invesco Limited), production of jewelry ( Pan - African Gem Lapidary ) and precious stones (Zambia Emerald Industries Ltd ), refineries for copper, oil, sugar, processing of agricultural products ( Indeco Milling Company Limited) and food production ( Lyons Brooke Bond Ltd. ). It is broken limestone (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 lower copper prices on the world market, the copper melt has left the city, as are the numerous enterprises of the textile industry. Since 2005, however, new deposits east of the city ( 40 million tonnes of copper ore with 0.75 percent copper content and 3 million tonnes of ore grading 3.5 percent copper content, with lead and zinc) are opened up again. The oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania ends here. Two major newspapers Zambia, Times of Zambia and The Sunday Times will be printed here. Every year there is the Zambian trade fair here.

Tourism

Ndola is on the railway line to Lusaka, has a cinema that Copperbeltmuseum, a memorial commemorates 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 stalls there called carved animals, jewelry, clothing and painted African Wraps, Chitengi.

Infrastructure

Ndola is on the rivers and Itawa Kafubu. There is an airport, the largest railway junction and railway station of the country, a power plant, schools of all kinds, including the Simba International School with boarding school, a technical college, a campus of the University of Zambia and hospitals.

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