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Place details
- Locality
- Livingstone
- Region
- Southern Province
- Country
- Zambia
- Population
- 178,361
- Timezone
- Africa/Lusaka
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Zambia
- Province
- Southern Province
- District
- Livingstone District
- Elevation
- 986 m (3,235 ft)
- Total
- 134,349
- Ethnicities
- Tonga Baleya (Leya people) Toka people and Lunda people
- Languages
- English (official language) Tonga language and Lozi language
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Climate
- BSh
- Website
- livcity .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- David Livingstone
- Country
- Zambia
- Located in
- Southern Province
- Population
- +33000
- Elevation
- +931
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Zambezi River
- Capital of
- Northern Rhodesia
- Official website
- www.livingstonecouncil.gov.zm
Article
Livingstone is a city in Southern Province, Zambia. Lying 10 km (6 mi) to the north of the Zambezi River, it is a tourist attraction due to its proximity to the Victoria Falls and its road and rail connections to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, the resort town on the opposite side of the falls. A historic British colonial city, its present population was enumerated at 177,393 inhabitants at the 2022 census. It is named after David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary who was the first European to explore the area. From 1911 until 1935, it served as the first capital of Northern Rhodesia. From 1907 to 2011, when replaced by Choma, Livingstone was the capital of Zambia's Southern Province.
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