Mpika

right|225px|Location of Mpika in Zambia 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 west of the town centre. 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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Settlement.official_name: Mpika
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.pushpin_map: Zambia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Zambia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: 25px Zambia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Muchinga Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Mpika District
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial
Settlement.population_as_of: 2018 Estimate
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Ethnicities
Settlement.population_blank2_title: Religions
Settlement.timezone: CAT
Settlement.utc_offset: +2

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Instance of: town
Country: Zambia
Located in: Northern Province
Population: 20950
Elevation: 1450
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Official website: www.mpikacouncil.gov.zm
Image: Mpika Youth Resource Centre (2) (5349318334).jpg

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Mpika es una ciudad situada en la Provincia de Muchinga, Zambia, situada en la intersección de la Gran carretera del Norte y la carretera de Tanzania hacia Dar es Salaam. Tiene una población de 39.724 habitantes, según el censo de 2010, mientras que la población del distrito se estima en 150.000 habitantes. Dado que el distrito de Mpika es el distrito más grande de Zambia, la densidad de población es inferior a 4 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado.

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