Mpika

Mpika
Town
Mpika
Location in Zambia
Coordinates: 11°51′00″S 31°26′00″E / 11.85000°S 31.43333°E / -11.85000; 31.43333
Country Zambia
ProvinceMuchinga Province
DistrictMpika District
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)

Mpika is a town in the Muchinga Province of Zambia, lying at the junction of the M1 road to Kasama and Mbala and the Tanzam Highway (Great North Road) to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the north-east and Lusaka in the south-west. It also has a railway station on the TAZARA Railway about 5 kilometres (3 mi) away. Mpika is situated between the Muchinga Escarpment to the east and vast miombo plains to the west. The town has an estimated population of 40,000 inhabitants (2008), while the district population is 149,063 inhabitants as of the 2022 Zambian census.

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