Zambia Geography
When visitors travel around Zambia the one thing that strikes them is the country’s sheer size. It covers some 750,000 sq. kms, big enough to swallow up France, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary combined. It lies in the tropical belt of South Central Africa 10 to 18 degrees of the equator, Angola lies to the west, Zaire and Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Mozambique to the east and Namibia and Zimbabwe to the south.
Situated on a plateau 1,300 metres above sea level, Zambia is the source of two great rivers, the Zaire and the Zambezi, the latter running through two of the country’s outstanding features, the magnificent Victoria Falls and the vast man-made “inland sea” lake Kariba.
As well as the falls Zambia possesses two of the largest wildlife sanctuaries In Africa, the Luangwa and Kafue National Parks. Altogether there are 19 National Parks covering eight percent of the country.
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