Factsheet:
Zambia
Capital: Lusaka, largest city
Area: 752,614 square km
Languages: English (official),
Bemba, Lozi, Nyanja, Tonga
Currency: Zambian kwacha (ZK)
Total plant species: 4,747
Total plant endemics: 201
Total RDL plants: 505
Focal RDL institution: PRE, K
Number of Protected Areas: 19
National Parks, 35 Game Management Areas, and other formal and informal
protected areas.
Population: 9,881,210 Growth Rate: 2.2% Density: 12.7 people/square km
Phytogeography: Zambezian, with
a small area of Afromontane in the northeast.
Flora: Miombo woodland, with
drier mopane woodland in the Luangwa and Zambezi Valleys and parts of the
west on Kalahari sands. Patches of lowland forest in the northwest, and
montane forest and grassland in the northeast.
Sources: Anonymous 2000, Fanshawe
1969, Stuart & Adams 1990
