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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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The Bemba are an African people of northern Zambia.
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The Nyamwezi are a people of the highlands of north-central Tanzania, south of Lake Victoria. Traders, they established a trade network from the east coast of Africa to Uganda during the 18th century and later into Zambia.
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The Shona are a Bantu-speaking people of south Africa, comprising approximately 80% of the population of Zimbabwe. They also occupy the land between the Save and Pungure rivers in Mozambique, and smaller groups are found in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. The
Shona are mainly farmers, living in scattered villages. The Shona language belongs to the Niger- Congo family.
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Thandie Newton is an Anglo-Zambian actress. She was born in 1972 in Zambia.
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The kwacha is the currency of Zambia and Malawi. In Malawi the kwacha (dawn) is the unit of currency in Malawi. So named because 100 tambala (cockerel) equal one Kwacha - 100 cockerels herald the dawn.
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ZM is an abbreviation for Zambia
ZM is an abbreviation for Zero Momentum
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Barotseland was a native kingdom in Africa. It is now part of Zambia.
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Kitwe is the second-largest city of Zambia, situated in the copperbelt mining region.
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Livingstone is a town in Zambia on the Zambesi River. It was once the capital of Zambia.
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