Lufwanyama is a small town in the Copperbelt Province

Copperbelt Province

Copperbelt Province in Zambia covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south. It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the immediate post-independence period, but its economic importance was severely...

 of Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

, and is headquarters of Lufwanyama District

Lufwanyama District

Lufwanyama District with headquarters at Lufwanyama is a large rural undeveloped district in the west of Copperbelt Province. On a number of maps it is mixed up with Mpongwe District and Masaiti District. At one time these three districts were known as 'Ndola Rural'. As of the 2000 Zambian Census,...

. Despite being only 60 km west of the most urban and industrialised part of the country, the mining cities of the Copperbelt, Lufwanyama is undeveloped and lacks infrastructure such as electricity, all-weather roads and hospitals. In fact the location of the town is not certain (the coordinates shown are an estimate) as it does not appear on the maps of Zambia which are generally available, but is presumed to lie close to the Lufwanyama River which flows from north to south about 65 km west of Kitwe

Kitwe

Kitwe is the second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. With a population of 547,700 Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka...

 and enters the Kafue River

Kafue River

The Kafue River sustains one of the world's great wildlife environments. It is a major tributary of the Zambezi, and of Zambia's principal rivers, it is the most central and the most urban, and the longest and largest lying wholly within Zambia....

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