Zambia
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- ZM
- ISO alpha-3
- ZMB
- ISO numeric
- 894
- FIPS 10-4
- ZA
- GeoNames ID
- 895949
Key facts
- Capital
- Lusaka
- Area
- 752,614 km²
- Population
- 17,351,822
- Currency
- Kwacha (ZMW)
- Calling code
- +260
- Top-level domain
- .zm
- Official languages
- en-ZM,bem,loz,lun,lue,ny,toi
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -14.33333
- Longitude
- 28.5
- Min latitude
- -18.069231871999946
- Min longitude
- 21.97987756300006
- Max latitude
- -8.194124042999917
- Max longitude
- 33.67420251500005
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/ZM?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 752614,
"capital": "Lusaka",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "ZMW",
"iso3_code": "ZMB",
"iso_code": "ZM",
"name": "Zambia",
"population": 17351822
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/ZM/regions/v1/cities?country=ZM/v1/postal-codes?country=ZM/v1/timezones?country=ZM
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- زامبيا
- Chinese
- 赞比亚
- English
- Zambia
- French
- Zambie
- German
- Sambia
- Hindi
- ज़ाम्बिया
- Italian
- Zambia
- Japanese
- ザンビア
- Korean
- 잠비아
- Portuguese
- Zâmbia
- Russian
- Замбия
- Spanish
- Zambia
- Total language variants
- 124
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Lusaka | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Lusaka Province
- Copperbelt Province
- Eastern Province
- Southern Province
- Central Province
- Northern Province
- Luapula Province
- Western Province
- North-Western Province
- Muchinga Province
10 of 10 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Lusaka | 2,212,301 |
| Kitwe | 665,961 |
| Ndola | 627,503 |
| Chipata | 327,059 |
| Solwezi | 301,370 |
| Kabwe | 288,598 |
| Chingola | 256,560 |
| Luanshya | 193,293 |
| Kasama | 179,636 |
| Livingstone | 178,361 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 13,131
- First-level regions
- 10
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 124
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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