Zambia

Facts

What the numbers say about Zambia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 22.6× the size of Zambia.
• Zambia ranks 38th of 239 by area but only 63rd of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 26 people per km², Zambia is the 140th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Zambia lies at 13°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Zambia's main territory stretches about 1,100 km north to south and 1,270 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 753,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 752,000 km², to within 2%.

How Zambia measures up

Zambia holds 2.5% of the land area and 1.4% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 4th largest of 17.

Where Zambia sits

• Zambia's centre lies at 13.5°S, 27.8°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,500 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 18°S to 8°S, about 1,100 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Zambia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Zambia would have 941.7 million people. It has 19.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Zambia would have 2.8 million people. It has 19.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 54.4 million.

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