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Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Capital: Lusaka

Area: 743,398 km²

Population: 15,972,001

Former Name: Northern Rhodesia

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Namibia , ← Angola , ↑ Congo-Kinshasa , ↗ Tanzania , → Malawi , ↘ Mozambique , ↘ Zimbabwe , ↓ Botswana

Religions: Protestant 75.3%, Roman Catholic 20.2%, other 2.7% (includes Muslim Buddhist, Hindu, and Baha'i), none 1.8%

Languages: Bemba 33.4%, Nyanja 14.7%, Tonga 11.4%, Lozi 5.5%, Chewa 4.5%, Nsenga 2.9%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda (North Western) 1.9%, Kaonde 1.8%, Lala 1.8%, Lamba 1.8%, English (official) 1.7%, Luvale 1.5%, Mambwe 1.3%, Namwanga 1.2%, Lenje 1.1%, Bisa 1%, other 9.7%, unspecified 0.2%

Ethnic Groups: Bemba 21%, Tonga 13.6%, Chewa 7.4%, Lozi 5.7%, Nsenga 5.3%, Tumbuka 4.4%, Ngoni 4%, Lala 3.1%, Kaonde 2.9%, Namwanga 2.8%, Lunda (north Western) 2.6%, Mambwe 2.5%, Luvale 2.2%, Lamba 2.1%, Ushi 1.9%, Lenje 1.6%, Bisa 1.6%, Mbunda 1.2%, other 13.8%, unspecified 0.4%

Motto: One Zambia, One Country (English)

Area: 752,618 km²

Catholic Population: 7,093,000 Catholics (36.4% of 19,478,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 436 parishes, 2,420 mission stations (323 with resident priest, 2,097 without resident priest), 286 other centres

Clergy: 16 bishops (11 diocesan, 5 titular), 1,046 priests (600 diocesan, 446 religious)

Non-Clergy: 2,030 religious (167 brothers, 1,863 sisters), 4 members of secular institutes (2 brothers, 2 sisters), 819 major seminarians, 11 missionaries, 8,362 catechists