Transcript Zambia
Zambia By Madelyn Where Is Zambia? Zambia is located in southern Africa, south of Angola and north of Zimbabwe. Basic Information About Zambia Total area: 752,618 sq km Population: Around 12 million Life Expectancy: 38.63 years Major Religious Groups: Christian (50-75%), Muslim/Hindu (2449%), Indigenous practices (1%) Type of government: Republic Gross Domestic Product per Capita (GDP): $1500, ZK 7,012,500 TV Stations: 9 Military Expenditures: 1.8% of GDP A Brief History of Zambia ► ► ► ► ► ► First inhabitants were the nomadic Bushmen The first real contact with the West was with Portuguese and Arab traders/explorers The First Englishman to visit Zambia, then known as Northern Rhodesia was David Livingstone (pictured at left) in 1851 Livingstone named the Mosi-aoTunya waterfall after the queen. We now call it Victoria Falls In 1888 Northern Rhodesia was declared an English colony Gaining independence on 24 October 1964, its name was changed to Zambia Copper Trade For the English, the single most valuable thing that the area now known as Zambia possessed was copper. By the 1930s, Northern Rhodesia produced around 2% of the world’s copper. Around World War II, the price of copper and other metals had increased by so much that the miners demanded more money for their work. A higher pay was granted- but only for the white workers of English descent. Government ► The formal title: The Republic of Zambia ► Capital city: Lusaka ► Independence Day:24 October ► Suffrage: 18 years ► Current President: Rupiah Banda Victoria Falls ► Located on the Zambezi river, between Zambia and Zimbabwe ► Officially called Mosi-oa-Tunya in Zambia ► Forms the largest curtain of falling water on the planet ► Has a width of 1.7km and a height of 108m ► Attracts millions of visitors each year Victoria Falls HIV/AIDS in Zambia ► ► ► ► More the one in seven adults in Zambia is living with either HIV or AIDS Zambia’s first AIDS case was reported in 1984 Over 600,000 children are either living with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS In 2004, President Mwanawasa promised to provide medicine for 10,000 Zambians in need. He more than surpassed his goal, and Zambia has one of the brightest futures of any disease torn nation on the planet. Citations ► ► ► ► ► "BBC News - Zambia country profile." BBC NEWS | News Front Page. N.p., 18 Nov. 2009. Web. 13 Feb. 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/ 1069294.stm>. "Africa:Zambia." The World Factbook. CIA, 15 Jan. 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2010. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/geos/za.html>. "History of Zambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zambia>. .. "HIV/AIDS in Zambia." AIDS & HIV information from the AIDS charity AVERT. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2010. <http://www.avert.org/aids-zambia.htm>. All photos via Wikimedia Commons