Map of Zambia

Zambia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° S, 30.0° E. Zambia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 8 neighbours — Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Zambia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Zambia is surrounded by the following 8 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Zambia covers about 752,612 km² (290,585 sq mi). That makes it the 38th-largest country in the world by area and the 17th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 37 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 19,693,423, the 65th-largest in the world and the 22nd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Zambia has an average population density of about 26 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 22nd by population and 17th by area.

The seat of government is Lusaka, and the official currency is the Zambian kwacha (ZMW, ZK), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Zambia carries the ISO country codes ZM and ZMB, dials on the international calling code +260 and uses the .zm internet domain.

Zambia shares its land borders with 8 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are DR Congo (capital Kinshasa, about 112,832,000 people), Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Angola (capital Luanda, about 36,170,961 people), Mozambique (capital Maputo, about 34,090,466 people), Malawi (capital Lilongwe, about 20,734,262 people), Zimbabwe (capital Harare, about 17,073,087 people), Namibia (capital Windhoek, about 3,022,401 people) and Botswana (capital Gaborone, about 2,359,609 people).

By area, Zambia is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 5 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° S, 30.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Zambia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Lusaka. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Zambia lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Zambia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Zambian kwacha (ZMW, ZK).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +260 and websites commonly use the .zm internet domain.

In short, Zambia is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 8 countries. Its capital is Lusaka. Zambia has a population of about 19,693,423 and covers around 752,612 km² (290,585 sq mi), ranking it 65th in the world by population and 38th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Zambia.

The flag of Zambia has a green field, on the fly side of which is a soaring orange African fish eagle above a rectangular area divided into three equal vertical bands of red, black and orange.

The flag of Zambia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.