Mpika

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Mpika

Total population

40,000

Coordinates-11.84°, 31.46°

Demographic figures from Zambia Statistics Agency. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Mpika is a town in the Muchinga Province of Zambia, lying at the junction of the M1 road to Kasama and Mbala and the Tanzam Highway to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the north-east and Lusaka in the south-west. It also has a railway station on the TAZARA Railway about 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of the town centre. Mpika is situated between the Muchinga Escarpment to the east and vast miombo plains to the west. The town has an estimated population of 40,000 inhabitants (2008), while the district population is 149,063 inhabitants as of the 2022 Zambian census.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.