Work in progress The map and province data are live. The ZambAI answer engine is still in build.
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ZamBuilt · made in Zambia, for Zambia

AI that knows Zambia

We are building a Zambian answer engine: ask in plain language, scope it to a province, get answers in kwacha and Zambian institutions. The map is working today — provinces, rivers, game parks, road and rail. The rest is on its way.

Answer engine Not yet live
Full site coming soon.

The map beside this is working now — select any province to see its reference data. Questions and answers arrive later.

Zambia and the subregion · 10 provinces

10 provinces · 752,612 km²
Central Province Copperbelt Province Eastern Province Lusaka Province Luapula Province Muchinga Province Northern Province North-Western Province Southern Province Western Province
What the map shows
  • Province One of the ten. Select it to zoom in and scope your question.
  • Selected province The one you are currently looking at.
  • Neighbouring country Outside Zambia, shown for context.
  • National park The park's published area drawn at true scale, centred on the park. A schematic footprint, not a surveyed boundary.
  • River Major river systems: the Zambezi, Kafue, Luangwa, Luapula and Chambeshi.
  • Lake Kariba, Bangweulu, Mweru and Tanganyika.
  • Railway The line of rail and the TAZARA route to Nakonde.
  • Main road The primary network. Unnamed in the source data, so shown without road numbers.
  • Town Provincial capitals and major towns. They appear once you select a province.
Select a province to scope your question

Where this has got to

Updated as it ships
  1. Live now

    Interactive provincial map

    All ten provinces and the eight neighbouring countries. Select a province to zoom to it.

  2. Live now

    Rivers, lakes, parks, road and rail

    Switch layers on and off: the Zambezi, Kafue and Luangwa systems, Kariba, Bangweulu, Mweru and Tanganyika, sixteen game parks drawn at true scale, the line of rail and TAZARA, and the main road network.

  3. Live now

    Province reference data

    Provincial capitals, land area, share of the country and provincial towns.

  4. In build

    The answer engine

    Ask a question in plain language, scoped to a province, and get an answer in kwacha and Zambian institutions. Not connected in this build.

  5. In build

    Published answers and search

    Every answer becomes a permanent page on this domain, searchable and filterable by province.

  6. Planned

    Census and statistical data

    Population and district detail, sourced properly rather than estimated.

  7. Planned

    Subregional coverage

    Border posts, transport corridors and the COMESA and SADC rules that Zambian traders actually run into.

The ten provinces

752,612 km²
Reference data for the ten provinces of Zambia
Code Province Provincial capital Area (km²) Share Known for
CEN Central Kabwe 94,394 12.5% Farming block along the line of rail, Kabwe lead legacy, Mulungushi.
COP Copperbelt Ndola 31,328 4.2% Copper mining heartland: Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola, Mufulira, Luanshya.
EAS Eastern Chipata 51,476 6.8% Cotton, groundnuts and tobacco; South Luangwa; Malawi border trade.
LUA Luapula Mansa 50,567 6.7% Lake Bangweulu and Lake Mweru fisheries, cassava, Ntumbachushi Falls.
LSK Lusaka Lusaka 21,896 2.9% National capital: government, banking, and the bulk of formal services.
MUC Muchinga Chinsali 87,806 11.7% Created in 2011 from Northern and Eastern; Nakonde border post; TAZARA line.
NOR Northern Kasama 77,650 10.3% Lake Tanganyika, Kalambo Falls, Chishimba Falls, coffee and finger millet.
NWE North-Western Solwezi 125,826 16.7% New Copperbelt: Kansanshi, Lumwana, Kalumbila; source of the Zambezi.
SOU Southern Choma 85,283 11.3% Victoria Falls and Livingstone, Lake Kariba, cattle and maize.
WES Western Mongu 126,386 16.8% Barotse floodplain, Kuomboka ceremony, rice, cattle and timber.
ZMB Zambia Lusaka 752,612 100.0% Ten provinces, eight neighbours, one landlocked crossroads.

Population figures are deliberately not shown yet. They will be added from the Zambia Statistics Agency 2022 Census rather than estimated.

What it will do

Local

Zambian by default

Kwacha, metric, and the offices you queue at: PACRA, ZRA, the Bank of Zambia, NAPSA, ZESCO, RTSA. No converting an answer written for somewhere else.

Scope

Province by province

Growing seasons in Mongu are not growing seasons in Chipata. Pick a province on the map and the answer follows it.

Subregion

Across the borders too

Zambia trades with eight neighbours. Kasumbalesa, Nakonde, Chirundu, the corridors, COMESA and SADC rules — all of it is in scope.

Record

Answers that stay put

Nothing disappears into a chat window. Each answer becomes a page on this site, in Zambia, with a link you can send to someone else.