{"id":27863,"date":"2024-11-09T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27863"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:27:56","slug":"zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Zambia:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>landlocked country<\/strong> in south-central <strong>Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated on a high plateau and takes its <strong>name from the Zambezi River<\/strong>, which drains all but a small northern part of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering countries:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is bounded to the north by the <strong>Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/strong>, and to the south by <strong>Zimbabwe and Botswana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tanzania<\/strong> borders the country to the north-east, <strong>Malawi<\/strong> to the west and <strong>Mozambique<\/strong> to the southeast. <strong>Angola<\/strong> borders Zambia to the west and <strong>Namibia<\/strong> to the southwest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy:<\/strong> Zambia\u2019s economy is heavily dependent on mining, in particular the mining <strong>of copper.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most Zambians speak <strong>Bantu languages<\/strong> of the Niger-Congo language family.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major water fall:Victoria Falls<\/strong> on Zambezi River.<\/li>\n<li>Zambia is home to <strong>Lake Kariba,<\/strong> the largest artificially created reservoir in the world by volume. It was created by constructing the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital city: <\/strong>Lusaka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is plateau?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an extensive area of flat upland usually bounded by an escarpment (i.e., steep slope) on all sides but sometimes enclosed by mountains. The essential criteria for plateaus are low relative relief and some altitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-zambia-hold-6th-session-of-joint-permanent-commission\/article68839912.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India-Zambia hold 6th Session of Joint Permanent Commission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia is a landlocked country in south-central Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}